UNITED KINGDOM · ENGLAND · SPECIES · AMPHIBIANS
GCN Licence Survey Returns
What this layer shows
Great crested newt presence/absence from class-survey licence returns.
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
GCN present · Survey date · Grid ref
In these presets
Species
Protected species and licensing context: great crested newt licence survey returns and eDNA pond results, priority ponds, the Botanical Value Map, SSSI units with their condition assessments, and SSSI Impact Risk Zones: the layer that tells you whether Natural England must be consulted on a planning application. Note that these are records of where people have looked, not a map of where the species are: an empty area may only mean nobody has surveyed it.