NatureScot SiteLink

What it contains

Site-level detail behind the designations: citations, notified natural features, site condition monitoring results, operations requiring consent, and management statements for every SSSI/SAC/SPA/Ramsar in Scotland. Operations Requiring Consent lists are what actually determine whether drilling needs NatureScot consent.

When you need it

Useful at these project stages, from the working group's stage matrix:

SelectDefine

Matched on

Constraints, regulation and consenting data (not a matrix item)

Assigned by

Matched to data items the matrix names

Coverage and detail

Nations

Not stated

Resolution

Per-site documents and feature condition records

Formats

HTML and PDF documents; no structured export

Update cadence

Continuous

Access and machine route

Licence as stated

Open Government Licence v3

Assertion source

as published by NatureScot

Protocol

Web application

Harvest note

No - document-level scraping only machine_endpoint field held prose, not a URL: None published

Caveats

Condition monitoring and Operations Requiring Consent are not machine-readable. This is the Scottish analogue of Natural England's designated sites views but without the structured data services Natural England provides for England.

Classification

Category

Constraints, Regulation & Consenting

Sub-category

4.1 Environmental designations & protected sites

Assigned by

Stated by the source

Depth domain

Mine workings

Data form

Time series, Document, Vector

Evidence confidence

Not yet assessed. Only a person can set this.

How current this entry is

Last updated here

2026-09-22

Last checked against the holder

2026-09-07

Checked by a person

Not yet. Nobody has read this entry.

Catalogue id

naturescot-sitelink