Description: This is the City Centre boundary, representing the historic and commercial centre of Nottingham, as defined in the Nottingham Local Plan, adopted in 2020.
Description: Comprehensive Environmental Improvements for Pedestrians and Cyclists - City Centre improvements to the pedestrian and public transport environment.
Description: The area of Highway Planning Lines safeguarded for road improvements within Nottingham City, indicating areas of land required to deliver transport schemes.
Description: The location of Landmark Buildings within Nottingham City Centre. Landmark Buildings are points of local interest and significance within the townscape.
Description: The location of Landmark Features within Nottingham City Centre. Landmark Features are points of local interest and significance within the townscape.
Name: Supporting the Growth of Further and Higher Education Facilities
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Description: The extent of sites safeguarded for Further and Higher Education, Research and Development, and Information & Communication Technology facilities within Nottingham City.
Description: Enterprise zones are areas of high growth potential where simpler planning and discounted business rates can be used to boost the local economy. Within Nottingham, the Boots Campus, Abbey Street/Leengate, and Nottingham Science Park have been designated as an Enterprise Zone. The Enterprise Zones should be referenced alongside the Local Plan for Nottingham City and the Core Strategy which guides development in Nottingham City.
Description: Retail designation; the clusters provide varied frontages to a series of main routes that link the City Centre to surrounding neighbourhoods. The clusters make a positive contribution to the character of the City Centre, whilst providing a mix of specialist and convenience goods and services for residents and visitors.
Description: Retail Opportunity Areas have been identified as appropriate areas for improvement and would be supported for retail and environmental enhancements contributing to the wider regeneration of the City Centre.
Description: The location of local retail centres within Nottingham City. These include a range of small shops of a local nature, serving a small catchment. Typically, local centres might include, amongst other shops, a small supermarket, a newsagent, a sub-post office and a pharmacy.
Description: The boundaries of the Town Centres within Nottingham City for all purposes other than the shopping frontages which are a separate dataset.
Description: Areas comprised of groups of shops often containing at least one supermarket or superstore, and a range of non-retail services, such as banks, building societies and restaurants, as well as local public facilities such as a library.
Description: Defined area where retail development is concentrated (generally comprising the Primary and those Secondary Frontages which are adjoining and closely related to the primary shopping frontage).
Description: The extent of the Green Belt around Nottingham - Derby which appears within the boundaries of Nottingham City. The Local Plan policy is to maintain the openness of the Green Belt.
Description: Minerals Safeguarding Areas (MSAs) provide for the safeguarding of proven mineral resources which are, or may become, of economic importance from unnecessary sterilisation by non-mineral development (such as being covered by buildings).Data is restricted to Nottingham City Council use only and should not be shared without the permission of the City Archaeologist. There is an exception that a copy as at Local Plan adoption has been available for viewing purposes only to support the Planning process.
Description: A 10m buffer has been applied to all caves in the city centre to represent the area within the City Centre with a concentrated area of caves.
Description: Area of land prioritised for regeneration. The area lies to the south east of the City Centre, and comprises the full extent of the Waterside Regeneration Zone (as referred to in the Core Strategy).
Description: Areas identified for regeneration focus. The City Centre has areas where specific uses cluster together or which have a particular character or identity. The Nottingham-Beeston canal is at the heart of the Canal Quarter and although new development has already significantly enhanced its setting, considerable further potential exists for refurbishment of historic buildings, sensitive new development and new and enhanced pedestrian routes. At their eastern edges, the Canal Quarter and the Creative Quarter overlap in recognition of their common and complementary characteristics. In this area, policies relating to both the Canal and Creative Quarters will apply The Castle Quarter is centred on Nottingham Castle, perhaps the most famous landmark in Nottingham which has a strong international identify linked with the legend of Robin Hood, along with the historic former General Hospital and many other historic buildings. There are major opportunities for heritage led regeneration to enhance the tourism and leisure offer and to deliver better connections to the centre of the City The Royal Quarter lies immediately west of the retail core and includes a variety of building types and City Centre uses with a focus on entertainment uses - such as the Royal Centre which comprises the Royal Concert Hall and the Theatre Royal and Rock City. The area includes many former civic buildings, heritage assets and Nottingham Trent University City Centre campus.
Description: Scheduling is the selection of nationally important archaeological sites. Although archaeology is all around us, scheduled sites form a carefully chosen sample of them, which are closely managed.Scheduled monuments are not always ancient, or visible above ground. There are over 200 categories of monuments on the schedule, and they range from prehistoric standing stones and burial mounds, through to the many types of medieval site - castles, monasteries, abandoned farmsteads and villages - to the more recent results of human activity, such as collieries.Scheduling is applied only to sites of national importance, and even then only if it is the best means of protection. Only deliberately created structures, features and remains can be scheduled. There are almost 20,000 scheduled monuments on the List. Scheduling is reserved for carefully selected sites, which create a representative sample of sites from different epochs.
Name: High Speed Safeguarding Direction [Policy: TR2] *
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Description: This area represents a nominal land safeguarding area around the proposed HS2 rail route. A 'buffer' of 200 metres each side of the route has been applied.
Name: Petroleum Exploration and Development Licence (PEDL) Areas [Policy: MI3] *
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Description: North Sea Transition Authority (NSTA) Licence boundaries, also referred to as Petroleum Exploration and Development Licence Areas. A Licence is a geographically defined area for prospecting, exploration or extraction of petroleum resources. The North Sea Transition Authority’s licensing system covers oil and gas within Great Britain, its territorial sea and on the UK Continental Shelf (UKCS).The Petroleum Act 1998 vests all rights to the nation’s petroleum resources in the Crown, but the NSTA can grant licences that confer exclusive rights to ‘search and bore for and get’ petroleum.Licences fall into several categories. The principal distinctions are between onshore and offshore licences, and between exploration licences (which cover exploration alone) and production licences (which cover both exploration and production). The NSTA has discretion in the granting of licences to help maximise the economic recovery of the UK’s oil and gas resources.
Copyright Text: Contains information provided by the North Sea Transition Authority and/or other third parties.
Description: The caves layer provides indicative information about the locations of known caves. These are man made caves excavated mainly in the Nottingham Castle Sandstone Formation. For the most part the Nottingham Castle Sandstone Formation consists of weakly cemented, generally well-sorted, medium- to coarse-grained sandstones which contain scattered or, locally, abundant pebbles. Most of the sandstone is weak to moderately strong, the exception being where unusually strong matrix cement, such as barite, is locally present. These properties have enabled this formation, in Nottingham, to be tunnelled, in areas of low-water table, to provide cellars, store rooms, dwellings and passages. Dataset created by British Geological Survey (BGS) from historical analogue records held. Source of each individual cave record can be found under SOURCE field in attribute table. Dataset purchased by Nottingham City Council to aid geological knowledge of city and potential pathways for ground contamination. The data was originally updated by BGS in 2010 following corrections provided by Nottingham City Council, but is no longer maintained by BGS. This data has now been combined with more recent data from Nottingham City Council's Historic Environment Record (HER) database, with new caves added to the datasets as they are discovered.It is expected that other caves exist within the city, on any site where the bedrock geology is Chester Formation or Lenton Formation sandstone, and therefore the absence of a cave in the caves layer should not be taken as evidence of the absence of a cave on a particular site. It is essential that the Nottingham City Historic Environment Record (HER) is consulted (at pre-application stage) for all planning/development enquiries where caves are known to exist, or where there is the potential for caves to exist. To consult the Nottingham City HER, please email uad@nottinghamcity.gov.uk
Name: Archaeological Constraints Areas [Policy: HE1] *
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Description: The archaeological constraints areas show the extent of areas in which archaeological remains are likely to be found. Planning Policy requires consideration of such in any development in those areas. The areas shown are generally indicative. The base information originated from the City Archivist and is reviewed by the City Archaeologists.Please note, the Archaeological Constraint Areas represent key areas where archaeological remains are believed to exist. However, archaeological remains do exist outside of these areas. Pre-application consultation with the City Archaeologist is recommend to establish whether archaeological assessment is required to support a planning application.
Description: Local Geological Sites (LGSs) are a non-statutory designation based on locally developed criteria, which identifies geological and geomorphological sites of local importance. These sites were previously referred to as Regionally Important Geological Sites (RIGs).Local Geological Sites are sites of local importance for geodiversity but are not legally protected. The primary purpose of the Local Site system is to allow the most important wildlife and geodiversity sites in the county (outside statutorily designated SSSIs) to be identified, so that informed decisions can be made about their protection and management, and about changes in land use that may affect such sites.Local Geological Sites are usually selected by voluntary geoconservation groups and in the case of Nottinghamshire, by NBGRC (Nottinghamshire Biological and Geological Records Centre).
Description: A Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) is the land notified as an SSSI under the Wildlife and Countryside Act (1981), as amended. Sites notified under the 1949 Act only are not included in the Data set. SSSI are the finest sites for wildlife and natural features in England, supporting many characteristic, rare and endangered species, habitats and natural features.
Description: Areas designated as Conservation Areas under Section 69 of the Planning (Listed buildings and Conservation Areas) Act, 1990, regarded as being an area of special architectural or historical interest
Name: Decentralised Heat and Energy Network [Policy: CC2] *
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Description: The District Heating System uses the steam produced when domestic and commercial waste collected is burnt at the Eastcroft incinerator, to heat water that is distributed to customers over a pipe network, providing heat and hot water.Not all pipes contain steam: the primary and secondary pipework contain pressurised hot water, with the secondary networks operating at a lower pressure and temperature to the primary networks. However, operating temperature of the primary network is varied according to the heating load and at certain times the primary networks shall contain water that, if released, turns into steam. Redundant pipes are those that are in situ but not in use.
Name: Local Wildlife Sites (previously known as BioSINCS) [Policy: EN6] *
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Description: A Local Wildlife Site (LWS) is a site of local importance for the conservation of biodiversity. LWSs receive no legal protection, but are given some degree of protection through the planning system. Previously known as Sites of Importance for Nature Conservation (BioSINCs). Local Wildlife Sites are a local, non-statutory designation that sits below, but complements, the national suite of statutorily designated Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSIs). They are of substantive value for the conservation of biodiversity in the county of Nottinghamshire, and are home to rare and scarce species, or represent the best surviving examples of habitats that were once widespread and typical of the Nottinghamshire landscape. Collectively, these sites form an essential ecological network and act as wildlife corridors and stepping stones, allowing species to migrate and dispersal between sites. The continued existence of these sites is vital to safeguard wildlife from the pressures of development, intensive agriculture and climate change.The dataset is a product of the Nottinghamshire Biological and Geological Records Centre (NBGRC). Local Wildlife Sites are identified by the NBGRC using criteria set by the Local Sites Panel. Membership of the Local Sites Panel consists of a range of organisations including local authorities, nature conservation NGOs, and the private sector.Where a site crosses the boundary between adjacent local authorities, the site will be duplicated for each local authority.
Description: Since December 1997 each local authority in the UK has been carrying out a review and assessment of air quality in their area. This involves measuring air pollution and trying to predict how it will change in the next few years. The aim of the review is to make sure that the national air quality objectives (PDF) will be achieved throughout the UK by the relevant deadlines. These objectives have been put in place to protect people's health and the environment.If a local authority finds any places where the objectives are not likely to be achieved, it must declare an Air Quality Management Area there. This area could be just one or two streets, or it could be much bigger.Then the local authority will put together a plan to improve the air quality - a Local Air Quality Action Plan.A variation was made by the Nottingham No.2 Air Quality Management Order 2002 (Nitrogen Dioxide) Variation Order 2019, which designates the whole of the Nottingham City administrative area as an AQMA effective from 9th January 2019. This is an amendment to the the Nottingham No2 Air Quality Management Area (Nitrogen Dioxide) - City Centre and the Nottingham No3 Air Quality Management Area(Nitrogen Dioxide) - Dunkirk which were made by Orders on 1st February 2002 and amended on 22nd June 2010. The ongoing review process may result in the need for an AQMA to be amended or revoked. All decisions to amend or revoke an AQMA are subject to full consultation.
Name: Registered Parks and Gardens [Policy: HE1] *
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Description: Registered Parks and Gardens listed in Historic England's Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Interest. Also includes Nottingham Castle, which is a Historic Park and Garden. 'At Risk' information from Historic England's Heritage at Risk register.In order to identify and help to protect those sites which are of particular historic significance, Historic England is enabled by government to compile the 'Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England'.
Name: Consultation Zones - Hazardous Installations [Policy: IN3] *
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Description: Certain sites and pipelines are designated as notifiable installations due to the hazardous substances present. The consultation zones around these sites and pipelines are shown on the Policies Map.
Name: Consultation Zone - Pipelines [Policy: IN3] *
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Description: Certain sites and pipelines are designated as notifiable installations due to the hazardous substances present. The consultation zones around these sites and pipelines are shown on the Policies Map.
Name: Article 4 Direction Area - Historic Environment [Policy: HE1] *
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Description: Areas whereby the Council can remove permitted development rights in order to preserve the character and amenity of an area, including the historic environment. These Directions are made by local planning authorities to restrict the exercise of permitted development rights, i.e. development permitted without the need to apply for specific planning permission. Permitted development rights have been granted by Parliament and Government policy is that they should be withdrawn only in exceptional circumstances, including evidence of a real and specific threat that permitted development is likely to take place which could damage an interest of acknowledged importance.
Description: Local Nature Reserves (LNRs) are for both people and wildlife. They are places with wildlife or geological features that are of special interest locally, which give people special opportunities to study and learn about them or simply enjoy and have contact with nature. Local Nature Reserves are a statutory designation made under Section 21 of the National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act 1949 by principal local authorities. Proposed sites are included as these also have some planning protection.
Description: The location and boundaries of Nottingham's principal open and green spaces, categorised into broad typologies of: Amenity; Outdoor Sports Facilities; Parks and Gardens; Natural and Semi-natural; Allotments, Community Gardens and Urban Farms; Cemeteries; Institutional; Provision for Children and Young People and Agricultural. Typologies are then further split down into sub-typologies where known. Some features of one typology may overlay another feature e.g. some. Outdoor Sports Facilities sit within a Park and Garden. This is denoted by the 'WHOLE_PART' field and the 'Part of Larger Site' features should be excluded when considering total open space for the whole city.
Name: Plantations on Ancient Woodland Sites [Policy: EN7] *
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Description: Ancient Woodland is land that has had a continuous woodland cover since 1600AD and may be ancient semi natural woodland (ASNW), which retains a native tree and shrub cover that has not been planted, although it may have been managed by coppicing or felling and allowed to regenerate naturally, or plantation on ancient woodland sites (PAWS) where the original tree cover has been felled and replaced by planting, often with conifers, and usually over the last century.The inventory identifies over 52,000 ancient woodland sites in England. Ancient woodland is identified using presence or absence of woods from old maps, information about the wood's name, shape, internal boundaries, location relative to other features, ground survey, and aerial photography. The information recorded about each wood and stored on the Inventory Database includes its grid reference, its area in hectares and how much is semi-natural or replanted. Prior to the digitisation of the boundaries, only paper maps depicting each ancient wood at 1:50 000 scale were available.
Name: Ancient Semi-Natural Woodland [Policy: EN7] *
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Description: Ancient Woodland is land that has had a continuous woodland cover since 1600AD and may be ancient semi natural woodland (ASNW), which retains a native tree and shrub cover that has not been planted, although it may have been managed by coppicing or felling and allowed to regenerate naturally, or plantation on ancient woodland sites (PAWS) where the original tree cover has been felled and replaced by planting, often with conifers, and usually over the last century.The inventory identifies over 52,000 ancient woodland sites in England. Ancient woodland is identified using presence or absence of woods from old maps, information about the wood's name, shape, internal boundaries, location relative to other features, ground survey, and aerial photography. The information recorded about each wood and stored on the Inventory Database includes its grid reference, its area in hectares and how much is semi-natural or replanted. Prior to the digitisation of the boundaries, only paper maps depicting each ancient wood at 1:50 000 scale were available.
Description: The extent of watercourses within Nottingham City includes the Rivers Trent and Leen and the Daybrook and Fairham Brook and the Nottingham and Beeston Canal.
Description: The location and boundaries of Nottingham's principal open and green spaces, categorised into broad typologies of: Amenity; Outdoor Sports Facilities; Parks and Gardens; Natural and Semi-natural; Allotments, Community Gardens and Urban Farms; Cemeteries; Institutional; Provision for Children and Young People and Agricultural. Typologies are then further split down into sub-typologies where known. Some features of one typology may overlay another feature e.g. some. Outdoor Sports Facilities sit within a Park and Garden. This is denoted by the 'WHOLE_PART' field and the 'Part of Larger Site' features should be excluded when considering total open space for the whole city.