UNITED KINGDOM · SCOTLAND · LANDSCAPE · PEAT
Carbon & Peatland Map
What this layer shows
Scotland's Carbon and Peatland map (2016): the classes 1 and 2 that National Planning Framework 4 treats as nationally important carbon-rich soil. The first map any Scottish wind farm or forestry scheme opens. 439,700 polygons; draws close in.
Where the data comes from
WFS · ogc.nature.scot
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In these presets
Wetland
Bog, fen, reedbed, marsh and open water. Blanket and raised bog, lowland fens, reedbeds, upland flushes, priority ponds and lakes, coastal and floodplain grazing marsh, and chalk rivers: with Ramsar sites and nutrient neutrality catchments, because on a wetland site the hydrology and the nutrient budget are usually the same conversation.
Farm & land
Land grade, soils, nitrate rules and agreement land. England and Wales; Scotland has land capability and AECS that are not published as open services, and Northern Ireland has neither.
Renewables screening
The constraints a wind or solar scheme is screened against in Scotland and northern England: carbon-rich soils and deep peat, wild land, National Scenic Areas, the statutory designations and ancient woodland. A screening map, not a decision: NPF4 gives several of these explicit weight, and the rest is casework.