Natura 2000 Management Plan Status for UK Sites, 2015 Submission

Management plan information for each Natura 2000 site in the UK, including Special Areas of Conservation and Special Protection Areas. The dataset was derived from UK-wide data submitted to the EU Commission on 22 December 2015 and indicates whether a management plan exists, its name, and a link. It was created by the Joint Nature Conservation Committee and last updated on 2026-04-14.

Use Cases

• Assessing the implementation of EU Habitats and Birds Directives based on management plan status.
• Mapping the coverage of conservation management plans across the UK based on site-level data.
• Linking to existing management plan documents for specific sites based on provided URLs.

Strengths

• Provides a UK-wide snapshot of management plan status as of a specific submission date (22 December 2015).
• Distinguishes between two types of protected sites: Special Areas of Conservation and Special Protection Areas.
• Includes direct links to management plan documents where they exist.

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 the 2015 submission, with prior data only collated for Gibraltar.

Provenance

Source

Joint Nature Conservation Committee

Collection Method

Derived from UK-wide data submitted to the EU Commission as part of the Standard Data Form updating exercise (Tranche 50).

Time Range

Snapshot from submission on 22 December 2015.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-14 09:45:35.162000; freshness should be verified.

Geography

United Kingdom (including Gibraltar for pre-2015 data).