Bathing Water areas are defined by land parcel lines at the upper edge of the beach and extend approximately 200 meters seaward. The dataset was updated in May 2025 to include 7 newly designated bathing water sites and is provided by OpenDataNI. It is governed by The Quality of Bathing Waters Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008, succeeding the EU Bathing Water Directive.
Use Cases
- Map and analyze designated bathing water zones based on the defined land-to-sea boundaries.
- Monitor regulatory compliance for water quality based on the spatial extents defined by the 2008 regulations.
- Assess changes in designated bathing areas based on the May 2025 update that added new sites.
Strengths
- Updated in May 2025 to include 7 newly designated sites.
- Boundaries are defined with a specific 200-meter seaward extension from the beach edge.
- Created using the OSNI 1:10K scale raster basemap.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to uk_data, covering only Northern Ireland.
Provenance
- Source
- OpenDataNI
- Collection Method
- Boundaries created using the OSNI 1:10K scale raster basemap.
- Time Range
- Covers period from at least 2008 regulations to May 2025 update.
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-03-18 11:22:33.972143; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- Northern Ireland