Great Crested Newt Class Survey Licence Returns (England)

Class licence returns for the survey of great crested newts for scientific (including research) or educational purposes. Presence only records for great crested newts determined through class licence surveys.

This data set provides valuable information on the distribution of a European Protected Species, the great crested newt. In addition, this data set has been used to inform activities related to District Level Licensing and the release of the data set increases transparency of this new licensing scheme.

Class licence surveys for great crested newts were undertaken by hand, nets, torches and aquatic funnel traps (including bottle traps) but excluding the use of pitfall traps and box traps. Results of great crested newt class licence surveys are submitted to Natural England and have been collated here into a presence only data set. Point data here is the centroid of a six figure OS grid reference. As such, the point may not correspond with a specific pond.

Full metadata can be viewed on data.gov.uk. Attribution statement: © Natural England copyright. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right [year].

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Last Updated October 9, 2025, 16:06 (UTC)
Created April 9, 2019, 11:12 (UTC)