Funding Partner Services

Planning List Checking Service - Planning authorities can submit selected applications or lists of all planning applications for biodiversity searches to an agreed set of criteria, to include species, site and brief habitat audit. This service can be extended for Local Development Plan checking. Reports are provided in an HTML drill-down format.

GIS Alert layers – A sub-section of species and site data held by the LRCs can be supplied as Alert Layers, tailored to the customers’ needs. These are then held readily available in the customers IT system and can be mapped on to OS base maps using a variety of GIS software, (ESRI, Mapinfo). As part of the service, the LRC will supply regular updates, which will incorporate any additions made to the reporting database used at the LRC. This service can be provided as an individual or Wales LRC service through a Data Licence Agreement.

Data management - Collation and management of species and habitat data to include data exchange with VC recorders for verification and management of data exchange with NBN Gateway

Digitisation service –

• Digitisation of Phase1/NVC habitat data or site boundaries into GIS format.
• Input of species records from paper format into electronic format.
• Retrieval of data held in obsolete electronic formats

Support of Local Biodiversity Action Plans - through providing baseline species and habitat data, species and habitat audits, and statistics for BARS.