Planning consideration
Sites of special scientific interest
A protected area that’s of particular interest to science due to rare species of fauna or flora or important geological or physiological features
- Design stage
- Research
- Tags
- local plan
- Also known as
- Protected sites, SSSIs
- Datasets
- Frequency of updates
- Ad hoc
- Useful links
- Discussion
- Join the discussion on GitHub
- Last updated
- 27 January 2025
Screen
Which organisations do we think should publish the data?
Natural England
Is there any Sites of special scientific interest data already available?
Yes
What Sites of special scientific interest data is currently available?
- Sites of Special Scientific Interest (England) (publisher: Natural England; coverage: England; licence: OGL3)
Research
What other planning considerations does it interact with?
- Local plans - We think that SSSIs play a role in the process of creating a local plan as they are referenced multiple times.