Aviation: Safe Guarding Maps

Aviation: Safe-Guarding Maps

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In order to make the process of pre-application consultation more effective key stakeholders in the aviation and wind development sectors are co-operating to develop an interactive web tool that can be used by wind project developers during the site selection stages of project development. The aim of this tool is to:

Reduce the number of speculative enquiries being sent directly to aviation consultees
Combine information on all radar installations in a single place to simplify the site screening process
Be a confidential repository for all information about proposed developments
Integrate the aviation consultation proforma and automatically distribute enquiries to relevant aviation stakeholders
Provide a preliminary assessment tool to assess the likelihood of objections for a given site of potential interest to developers
Provide an assessment methodology for use by the consultees

The development of such an interactive tool is being progressed in two phases:

Phase 1: Make available a series of maps with various downloadable GIS (Geographical Information System) layers.

Phase 2: A comprehensive interactive web tool to assist in site selection.

This page contains links to the maps from Phase 1.

Datasets

NOTE: Maps are made available as ESRI Shapefiles for use with GIS software. These are also viewable with free ArcExplorer software. The source of these data is given in parentheses.

Maps are also made available in JPG

and PNG

image formats.

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Acronyms

AD - Air Defence
ATC - Air Traffic Control
BWEA - British Wind Energy Association
CAA - Civil Aviation Authority
NERL - NATS (En-oute) plc
NATS - National Air Traffic Services
MAGIC - Multi-Agency Geographic Information for the Countryside
MoD - Ministry of Defence
VFR - Visual Flight Rules

Datasets

Wind farm location information (BERR Planning Database) for the latest extract.

Aviation

Aerodromes & Airfields (CAA)
Last Updated: 5 November 2008
ESRI Shapefiles 1.26MB
JPG image
PNG image

VFR Charts (CAA - may be purchased through 3rd party commercial providers)

Radar Maps (NERL)
Last Updated: 5 November 2008
All ESRI Shapefiles 6.55MB

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Esdalemuir Seismic Map (MoD)
Met Office Maps (MoD)
Low Flying Maps (MoD)
ATC/AD Maps (MoD)
The above datasets from the MoD will be available shortly.

Environmental Constraints These datasets ...

Ancient Woodland
Ramsar
Sites of Special Scientific Interest
Special Protection Areas
National Nature Reserve
Special Areas of Conservation
Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty
National Parks
Moorland

are available from the following sources:

MAgiC
Scottish Natural Heritage
Countryside Council for Wales

Urban Settlements
(Communities and Local Government)
Direct enquires should be made to:
gis@communities.gsi.gov.uk

RSPB Reserves (GB)
Royal Society for the Protection of Birds