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title: "Enviro + Geo Insight - GIS schema: Habitat designations"
description: Data schema for the habitat designation group of datasets within Groundsure's Enviro + Geo Insight - GIS product
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July 29, 2025
# Enviro + Geo Insight - GIS schema: Habitat designations
## The information below details all definition of each of the layers in the Habitat designation group within the GeoPackage, defining each data layer, the attributes of the data and their data types, as well as the definitions for any values that use look up tables
### Habitat Networks
#### Layer name: Habitat\_Designations-Habitat\_Networks\_NE
This is a polygon based dataset of Habitat Networks across England. This includes Habitat Networks for 18 priority habitat networks (based primarily, but not exclusively, on the priority habitat inventory) and areas suitable for the expansion of networks to help improve the ecological resilience through restoration and habitat creation.
**Geometry:** Polygon
**Coverage:** England
**Schema:**
| **Column name** | **Data type** |
| --- | --- |
| gs\_id | Integer |
| class | Varchar (80) |
| habitat | Varchar (80) |
| habitat\_description | Varchar (35) |
### Limestone Pavement Orders
#### Layer name: Habitat\_Designations-Limestone\_Pavement\_Orders\_NE
This is a polygon based dataset outlining areas across England designated with Limestone Pavement Orders under Section 34 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981. It is a criminal offence to remove any part of the outcrop limestone in these areas.
**Geometry:** Polygon
**Coverage:** England
**Schema:**
| **Column name** | **Data type** |
| --- | --- |
| gs\_id | Integer |
| site\_name | Varchar (80) |
| date\_conf | Varchar (80) |
| country | Varchar (80) |
| county | Varchar (80) |
| location | Varchar (80) |
| np | Varchar (80) |
| sssi | Varchar (80) |
| sac | Varchar (80) |
| key\_flora | Varchar (80) |
| area\_ha | Double precision |
| easting | Varchar (20) |
| northing | Varchar (20) |
| ref\_num | Varchar (80) |
| global\_id | Varchar (80) |
| shape\_leng | Double precision |
### Open Mosaic Habitat
#### Layer name: Habitat\_Designations-Open\_Mosaic\_Habitat\_NE
This is a polygon based dataset of sites verified as Open Mosaic Habitat. Mosaic habitats are brownfield sites that are identified under the UK Biodiversity Action Plan as a priority habitat listed on Section 41 of the Natural Environment and Rural Communities Act 2006 (NERC Act) due to the habitat variation within a single site, supporting an array of invertebrates.
**Geometry:** Polygon
**Coverage:** England
**Schema:**
| **Column name** | **Data type** |
| --- | --- |
| gs\_id | Integer |
| site\_ref | Varchar (200) |
| interpqual | Varchar (200) |
| source1\_txt | Varchar (200) |
| source2\_txt | Varchar (200) |
| source3\_txt | Varchar (200) |
### Priority Habitat Inventory
#### Layer name: Habitat\_Designations-Priority\_Habitat\_Inventory\_NE
This is a polygon based dataset of Habitats of principal importance as named under Natural Environment and Rural Communities Act (2006) Section 41.
**Geometry:** Polygon
**Coverage:** England
**Schema:**
| **Column name** | **Data type** |
| --- | --- |
| gs\_id | Integer |
| main\_habit | Varchar (50) |
| candidates | Varchar (200) |
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