WMS

The UK continental shelf is subdivided into eight areas for the purposes of Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA).

SEA is the process of appraisal through which environmental protection and sustainable development may be considered, and factored into national and local decisions regarding Government (and other) plans and programmes – such as oil and gas licensing rounds and other offshore energy developments, including renewables and gas and carbon dioxide storage.

Subsea supply pipelines (oil, gas, condensate, water, and other) around Scotland and adjacent waters.  The offshore data is provided by a web service whereas pipelines within territorial baselines are derived from OceanWise Marine Themes under license.

This layer contains locations of shellfish growing waters designated in line with the Shellfish Waters Directive (2006/113/EC) by Scottish Government under The Water Environment (Shellfish Water Protected Areas: Designation) (Scotland) Order 2013. Waters are used for commercial shellfish cultivation. Water quality in designated areas is regularly monitored by SEPA.

This layer shows Aerial Photography showing the latest available data for Scotland at 25cm resolution. It shows continuous coverage, based on a full data set from 2008 onwards