Habitat banks by national character area

Every national character area (NCA) in England, with the number of habitat banks on the public register in each. 159 NCAs total; 120 have at least one registered habitat bank today.

About NCAs and BNG

NCAs are the 159 ecological landscape areas Natural England defined in the late 1990s, drawn on habitat, geology and land use rather than administration.

The statutory metric's spatial risk multiplier reads the NCA alongside the local planning authority (LPA), and either is enough on its own. Off-site units count in full where the bank shares the development's LPA or NCA; a neighbouring LPA or NCA pays three-quarters, and outside both pays half.

Landscapes and council boundaries rarely agree, so the NCA is often what saves a unit its full value. That is the case this directory is for: supply an LPA-only search would write off. Watercourse units are the exception, scored on waterbody and operational catchments instead.

Looking for a different cut? Browse by LPA for the other geography that prices distance, or browse by LNRS area for the strategies that set strategic significance. Or see every registered habitat bank in one list, whichever area it sits in.

All national character areas

A

Arden — 4
Avon Vales — 2

B

Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire Claylands — 11
Bedfordshire Greensand Ridge — 2
Berkshire and Marlborough Downs — 3
Blackdowns — 4
Blackmore Vale and Vale of Wardour — 1
Black Mountains and Golden Valley — 0
Bodmin Moor — 2
Border Moors and Forests — 1
Bowland Fells — 0
Bowland Fringe and Pendle Hill — 1
Bristol, Avon Valleys and Ridges — 7

C

Cannock Chase and Cank Wood — 5
Carnmenellis — 0
Central Lincolnshire Vale — 3
Central North Norfolk — 1
Charnwood — 0
Cheshire Sandstone Ridge — 0
Cheviot Fringe — 0
Cheviots — 0
Chilterns — 12
Clun and North West Herefordshire Hills — 1
Cornish Killas — 2
Cotswolds — 10
Cumbria High Fells — 0

D

Dark Peak — 1
Dartmoor — 2
Derbyshire Peak Fringe and Lower Derwent — 2
Devon Redlands — 2
Dorset Downs and Cranborne Chase — 4
Dorset Heaths — 0
Dunsmore and Feldon — 3
Durham Coalfield Pennine Fringe — 7
Durham Magnesian Limestone Plateau — 2

E

F

Forest of Dean and Lower Wye — 0

G

Greater Thames Estuary — 3

H

I

K

Kesteven Uplands — 3

L

Lancashire and Amounderness Plain — 4
Lancashire Coal Measures — 2
Lancashire Valleys — 3
Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire Wolds — 1
Leicestershire and South Derbyshire Coalfield — 0
Leicestershire Vales — 3
Lincolnshire Coast and Marshes — 1
Lincolnshire Wolds — 2
Low Weald — 11
Lundy — 0

M

N

Needwood and South Derbyshire Claylands — 1
New Forest — 2
Northamptonshire Uplands — 2
Northamptonshire Vales — 2
North Downs — 6
North East Norfolk and Flegg — 0
Northern Lincolnshire Edge with Coversands — 1
Northern Thames Basin — 10
North Kent Plain — 4
North Norfolk Coast — 1
North Northumberland Coastal Plain — 3
North Pennines — 2
Northumberland Sandstone Hills — 1
North West Norfolk — 3
North York Moors and Cleveland Hills — 2
Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire and Yorkshire Coalfield — 10

O

Orton Fells — 1
Oswestry Uplands — 0

P

Q

Quantock Hills — 0

R

Rockingham Forest — 4
Romney Marshes — 1

S

Salisbury Plain and West Wiltshire Downs — 4
Sefton Coast — 0
Severn and Avon Vales — 8
Sherwood — 3
Shropshire, Cheshire and Staffordshire Plain — 17
Shropshire Hills — 3
Solway Basin — 0
Somerset Levels and Moors — 1
South Coast Plain — 3
South Cumbria Low Fells — 0
South Devon — 6
South Downs — 6
South East Northumberland Coastal Plain — 5
Southern Lincolnshire Edge — 1
Southern Magnesian Limestone — 4
Southern Pennines — 7
South Hampshire Lowlands — 1
South Herefordshire and Over Severn — 0
South Norfolk and High Suffolk Claylands — 5
South Purbeck — 0
South Suffolk and North Essex Clayland — 6
South West Peak — 4
Suffolk Coast and Heaths — 2

T

U

Upper Thames Clay Vales — 13

V

Vale of Mowbray — 0
Vale of Pickering — 1
Vale of Taunton and Quantock Fringes — 5
Vale of York — 3

W

Y