UNITED KINGDOM · SCOTLAND · LANDSCAPE · SCOTLAND
Wild Land Areas
What this layer shows
Scotland's 42 Wild Land Areas (2014): the map that carries weight in wind farm and hill-track casework: National Planning Framework 4 gives these areas explicit protection.
Where the data comes from
WFS · ogc.nature.scot
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In these presets
Upland
Moorland and the high ground: blanket bog, upland heath, mountain heaths and willow scrub, upland calcareous grassland, hay meadows and flushes, with the Moorland Change Map and the non-priority grass moorland and fragmented heath layers so you can see what has been lost as well as what remains. National Parks and CRoW access land are on because most upland work happens inside one or both.
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.
Landscape character
What the landscape is, before what is protected: character areas, LANDMAP, wild land and the scenic designations.