4b1d6a09-2686-32e2-e063-3050940a53b5 English dataset British Geological Survey +44 131 667 1000 The Lyell Centre, Research Avenue South EDINBURGH LOTHIAN EH14 4AP United Kingdom enquiries@bgs.ac.uk pointOfContact 2026-04-08 UK GEMINI 2.3 http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13608640 OSGB 1936 / British National Grid (EPSG::27700) BGS Mineral Planning Authorities 2006 creation http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13608640 This dataset provides a digital spatial representation of the Mineral Planning Authorities (MPAs) across the United Kingdom. Each polygon represents an administrative area responsible for mineral planning and regulation and is linked to the relevant onshore mineral resource maps and accompanying reports for that area. The Mineral Planning Authority areas broadly align with the administrative units used in the preparation of BGS mineral resource maps. In England and parts of South Wales, these maps were produced following a commission to BGS by the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (now the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government) through the research project Mineral resource information in support of national, regional and local planning. This work was completed in 2006 and resulted in a series of digitally generated mineral resource maps at a scale of 1:100 000, covering administrative areas across England and parts of South Wales. In Scotland, BGS was awarded funding from the Scottish Government Aggregates Levy Fund in 2007 to develop a comprehensive and accessible mineral resource information base for 18 local authorities within the Central Belt of Scotland. This work was co-funded through the BGS Sustainable Mineral Solutions project and was completed in March 2008. The project outputs included a guide to minerals information for the Central Belt and a series of digitally generated mineral resource maps at a scale of 1:100 000. In Wales, BGS was awarded funding from the Welsh Government-administered Aggregates Levy Sustainability Fund for Wales in 2009 to develop a comprehensive mineral resource information base covering Wales. The project was co-funded through the BGS Sustainable Mineral Solutions team, part of the Minerals and Waste Science Programme, and was led from the BGS Cardiff office. This work was completed in July 2010 and produced a series of six digitally generated mineral resource maps at a scale of 1:100 000, together with supporting mineral resource information for Wales. A primary objective of this work was to provide baseline mineral resource information in a consistent, updateable format to support mineral planning, including use in mineral development plan documents and regional spatial strategies. This Mineral Planning Authority spatial layer provides a framework for accessing these mineral resource maps and reports, supporting mineral planning, land-use decision making and resource management. Enquiries British Geological Survey 0115 936 3143 0115 936 3276 Environmental Science Centre, Nicker Hill, Keyworth NOTTINGHAM NOTTINGHAMSHIRE NG12 5GG United Kingdom enquiries@bgs.ac.uk distributor Enquiries British Geological Survey 0115 936 3143 0115 936 3276 Environmental Science Centre, Nicker Hill, Keyworth NOTTINGHAM NOTTINGHAMSHIRE NG12 5GG United Kingdom enquiries@bgs.ac.uk pointOfContact asNeeded https://resources.bgs.ac.uk/images/geonetworkThumbs/4b1d6a09-2686-32e2-e063-3050940a53b5.png Geology GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 2008-06-01 publication Minerals Digital data Economic geology BGS Thesaurus of Geosciences 2022 revision data.gov.uk (non-INSPIRE) dataCentre NERC_DDC otherRestrictions licenceOGL Available under the Open Government Licence subject to the following acknowledgement accompanying the reproduced NERC materials "Contains NERC materials ©NERC [year]" otherRestrictions The copyright of materials derived from the British Geological Survey's work is vested in the Natural Environment Research Council [NERC]. 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Available under the Open Government Licence subject to the following acknowledgement accompanying the reproduced NERC materials "Contains NERC materials ©NERC [year]" vector 50000 English geoscientificInformation ISO 3166_2 2009 revision GBN British Geological Survey Gazetteer: Geographical hierarchy from Geosaurus 1979 creation GREAT BRITAIN [id=139600] -5.7200 2.8500 51.0800 56.3200 2006 2020 ESRI Shapefile (.shp) PDF file (.pdf) Enquiries British Geological Survey 0115 936 3143 0115 936 3276 Environmental Science Centre, Nicker Hill, Keyworth NOTTINGHAM NOTTINGHAMSHIRE NG12 5GG United Kingdom enquiries@bgs.ac.uk distributor https://www.bgs.ac.uk/mineralsuk/planning/onshore-maps/ WWW:LINK-1.0-http--related MineralsUK – Onshore Mineral Resource Maps Access to the maps and reports on the MineralsUK website information dataset dataset INSPIRE Implementing rules laying down technical arrangements for the interoperability and harmonisation of Geology 2011 publication See the referenced specification false Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services 2010-12-08 publication See http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2010:323:0011:0102:EN:PDF false The dataset was compiled by the British Geological Survey (BGS) through the collation and digitisation of Mineral Planning Authority administrative boundaries across the UK. Boundaries were standardised and aligned with the administrative areas used in the BGS onshore mineral resource mapping programme. Each authority polygon was attributed to enable linkage to the corresponding mineral resource map and report. The underlying mineral resource information referenced by this dataset was produced through interpretation of geological mapping, mineral occurrence data, extraction site information, mineral permissions and licensing data, and selected environmental designation datasets. These data were compiled to provide consistent baseline mineral resource information for planning purposes and have subsequently been integrated into regional minerals information GIS datasets.