UNITED KINGDOM · ENGLAND · LANDSCAPE · WATER

River Water Body Catchments (WFD 2025)

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What this layer shows

England's 4,080 river water body catchments with their 2025 Water Framework Directive classification from the Environment Agency: overall, ecological and chemical status, with each element behind them. Coastal catchments are included. Objectives read "Not Yet Available" until the Environment Agency publishes them.

Publisher and licence

Official guidance ↗

Where the data comes from

WFS · environment.data.gov.uk

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Facts shown for each feature

Status · Ecological status · Chemical status · Catchment · Water body ID · River basin district · Year

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Planning

The constraints that shape a red line: SSSI Impact Risk Zones, Green Belt, the Flood Map for Planning zones and storage areas with present-day rivers-and-sea risk, Agricultural Land Classification (both the provisional national map and the more reliable post-1988 surveys), nutrient neutrality catchments, National Parks, National Landscapes and Local Nature Recovery Strategy areas. Useful for a constraints plan or an early feasibility check before any ecology is commissioned.

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.

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