dataset · United Kingdom
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Land Cover Map 2025 (LCM2025 - UK land cover statistics)
The Land Cover Map 2025 (LCM2025 - UK Land Cover Statistics) dataset summarises the coverage of different land cover types across Great Britain and Northern Ireland, classified into 21 UKCEH land cover classes, based upon Biodiversity Action Plan broad habitats. This data is provided in both .csv and geopackage (vector) formats. Statistics are calculated at country, county, and regional (England only) levels from the Land Cover Map 2025 (LCM2025 - 10 m classified pixels) datasets for Great Brita
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What's in it
- Data offered docs-verified
- UK land cover extent statistics across 21 UKCEH land cover classes · land cover extent in m2 and percentage area per geography · area in hectares (county and Unified Authority) or km2 (region and country)
- Coverage docs-verified
- Great Britain and Northern Ireland · 2025-01-01 to 2025-12-31
- Resolution docs-verified
- 10 m source pixels; statistics aggregated to country, county and regional (England only) levels
- Formats docs-verified
- CSV · GeoPackage (gpkg)
- Access docs-verified
- Free download under the Open Government Licence (OGL); whole dataset available as a zip package from the NERC EDS EIDC catalogue
Useful for
- Use cases llm-inferred
- County or unitary authority land cover baseline for flood risk assessment or drainage catchment context · Regional habitat area statistics as a starting point for BNG baseline context · Screening land cover change between LCM editions, noting the method caveat
- Audience llm-inferred
- flood risk consultants · drainage engineers · ecologists · planners · GIS analysts
Limitations
- Constraints docs-verified
- Changes between LCM2024 and LCM2025 mix real land cover change with classification-method change · LCM production methods are being overhauled and the full time-series is to be reprocessed · Statistics are aggregated to country, county and regional levels, so not suitable for site-level extents · Regional level covers England only
- Licence
- Open government licence
- Authentication
- Unknown — review source docs
- GitHub stars
- Unknown
- Last commit
- Unknown
- Last successful page check
- 16/10/2026
- Page health
- healthy
- Package
- Not recorded
- Verification
- Not independently verified
Provenance & evidence
Listed in ukceh-eidc public catalogue API on 2026-10-16; relevance/value screened (haiku).
Metadata observed 14/10/2026 · research sweep: sweep-2026-10-16 (ukceh-eidc)