dataset · England
England Peat Status GHG and C storage
The Peat Layer was produced by Natural England (ARM team) during June-October 2008, with the aim of identifying the extent of three classes of peaty soils for the purposes of the Partnership Project to Protect and Enhance Peat Soils (aka. The Peat Project). The Peat Project is a joint initiative of Defra, Natural England, the Environment Agency, Forestry Commission, Welsh Assembly Government, Countryside Council for Wales, Northern Ireland Environment Agency, Cadw and the Department for Energy a
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Licence: ["There are no public access constraints to this data. Use of this data is subject to the licence identified.", "There are no public access constraints to this data. Use of this data is subject to the
Evidence quality: 56.4
Listed in data.gov.uk public catalogue API on 2026-10-16; relevance/value screened (haiku).
Metadata checked: 2026-10-14T13:20:00.000Z
What's in it
- Data offered docs-verified
- peaty soil extent, three classes · greenhouse gas and carbon storage
- Coverage docs-verified
- England · 2008
- Update frequency docs-verified
- unknown
- Formats docs-verified
- OGC API - Features · ESRI REST Feature Server · WFS · WMS · Shapefile · GeoJSON · File geodatabase · XLS · LYR
- Access docs-verified
- Free, with no public access constraints; use is subject to the Non-Commercial Government Licence, which restricts commercial use
Useful for
- Use cases llm-inferred
- Screening sites for peat soil presence as an early planning or EIA constraint · Carbon stock and greenhouse gas baseline for land-use or peatland restoration assessment · Flagging peat-related geotechnical risk in early site appraisal
- Audience llm-inferred
- planners · ecologists · geotechnical engineers · GIS analysts
Limitations
- Constraints llm-inferred
- Non-Commercial Government Licence restricts commercial use, which may exclude consultancy project use without a separate licence · Mapped from 2008 fieldwork; currency for current site conditions is uncertain · Update frequency unknown · Reports or documents using the layer must acknowledge BGS, Cranfield University (NSRI) and OS
Evidence
- https://environment.data.gov.uk/api/file/download?fileDataSetId=9ec53bd7-b3e7-4092-8038-dc25483343af&fileName=England's peatlands carbon storage and greenhouse gases.url
- https://www.data.gov.uk/dataset/8ea9074e-bafc-4cc4-85dd-19cda1dfbfd5/england-peat-status-ghg-and-c-storage
Check upstream coverage, uncertainty and licence before use. Station observations are not forecasts or design levels.