Locality Profile Indicators - Sources and Definitions
Environment Data
| Indicator Name | Description | Source - Primary | Source - Secondary | Notes | Time Period data relates to | Date source published |
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| Grow and eat own produce | Percentage of survey respondents who reported that they grow and eat their own produce. | Shetland Population Health Survey |
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Data at datazone level are combined for each locality and divided by the number of datazones in the locality to give an average percentage. Please note geographies in the report are slightly different.* |
2021/22 | 2022 |
| International designations | Sites which are considered the best for Wildlife in Europe (Special Areas of Conservation and Special Protection Areas) and a single site designated under the Ramsar Convention. | NatureScot – data manually extracted from each site overview page (taken from secondary source). | Shetland Local Development Plan - SEA Environmental Baseline Appendix III (Shetland Islands Council): appendix-iii-environmental-baseline (shetland.gov.uk) | Report published in 2014 | 2014 | |
| Local nature conservation sites (LNCS) | Identified by Shetland Islands Council as having biodiversity and/or geodiversity features of interest significant at a Shetland level. LNCS are not statutory designations but receive protection through planning policy. They help to highlight sites with important natural heritage to developers and the Council. | Shetland Local Development Plan - SEA Environmental Baseline Appendix III (Shetland Islands Council): appendix-iii-environmental-baseline (shetland.gov.uk) | Report published in 2014 | 2014 | ||
| Sites of special scientific interest | Sites of special scientific interest (SSSIs) are designated under the Wildlife and Countryside Act (1981) as amended by the Nature Conservation (Scotland) Act 2004. Sits are designated due to the presence of important flora, fauna, geological or geomorphological features (or a combination of these features), many are also designated as European sites. | NatureScot – data manually extracted from each site overview page (taken from secondary source). | Shetland Local Development Plan - SEA Environmental Baseline Appendix III (Shetland Islands Council): appendix-iii-environmental-baseline (shetland.gov.uk) | Report published in 2014 | 2014 |