Farm Compliance Visits by UK Environment Agency Land and Water Teams

A list of farm visits conducted by the Environment Agency to check compliance with environmental regulations and good practice. Data is split by historical operational regions and identifies discrete river stretches by Hydrometric Catchment. The dataset includes summary information about visit complexity and non-compliant issues found, as recorded by the Environment Agency in 2016.

Use Cases

• Analyze regional patterns of non-compliance based on summary information about issues found.
• Map regulatory activity to specific river catchments based on Hydrometric Catchment identifiers.
• Assess the relationship between farm operation type and compliance outcomes where recorded.
• Evaluate the distribution of visit complexity across different operational regions.

Strengths

• Includes a specific attribution statement and copyright date (2016) from the Environment Agency.
• Contains structured summary information about visit complexity and compliance outcomes.
• Geographic detail is provided through Hydrometric Catchment identifiers and historical operational regions.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data may reflect temporal bias inherent to its 2016 source date.

Provenance

Source

Environment Agency

Collection Method

Records from compliance visits conducted by Land and Water teams.

Time Range

Data reflects records from 2016.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-06 07:08:53.914149; freshness should be verified.

Geography

United Kingdom, split by historical operational regions and Hydrometric Catchments.