Natural Resources Wales Operational Areas Geospatial Boundaries

Wales is covered by a spatial dataset containing the extent polygons for six Natural Resources Wales operational areas. The dataset defines the post-Organisational Design catchment boundaries for the North East, North West, Mid, South East, South West, and South Wales Central areas. It is published by the Government Digital Service under the OGL-UK-3.0 license.

Use Cases

• Route incident reports to the correct local team based on the defined operational area polygons.
• Visualize the geographic areas of responsibility for different NRW teams on a map.
• Support the creation of Area Statements using the same official boundary definitions.
• Integrate administrative catchment boundaries into larger geospatial analyses of Welsh natural resources.

Strengths

• Defines six distinct operational areas covering the entirety of Wales.
• Serves an official purpose for routing enquiries and incidents within NRW.
• Published under the permissive OGL-UK-3.0 open government license.

Limitations

• Row count and file size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Provenance

Source

Government Digital Service

Collection Method

Likely created for internal organizational design and operational management.

Time Range

Post-Organisational Design period, but specific dates are unknown.

Freshness

Last updated date is unknown.

Geography

Wales