UNITED KINGDOM · ENGLAND · LAND-BASED SCHEMES · AGRI-ENVIRONMENT
Environmental Stewardship Agreements
What this layer shows
Environmental Stewardship agreement land (ELS/HLS) as at the 2024 snapshot. The scheme CLOSED to new agreements in 2014 and the remaining agreements are expiring, so treat this as history rather than current status; check RPA records for a live agreement.
Where the data comes from
ARCGIS · services.arcgis.com
Merestone asks this service live for the area on screen. Nothing is copied or stored beyond a short cache.
Facts shown for each feature
Scheme · Agreement · Live from
In these presets
Net gain
Habitat and connectivity for biodiversity net gain and offsetting work: the National Habitat Network, the full Priority Habitat Inventory, Local Nature Recovery Strategy areas, registered gain sites, ancient woodland, open mosaic habitat on previously developed land, agricultural land classification and live Environmental Stewardship agreements. The question this set answers is where a gain would actually connect to something.
Farm & land
Land grade, soils, nitrate rules and agreement land, for England and Wales. Scotland's land capability map is open and on the list; it is not in the app yet, and Northern Ireland's land grade is not in the app yet.