GIS planning overlays
On paid plans, Airship draws live UK planning data as vector overlays directly on your aerial map, so constraints are visible while you lay out the site.
Turning overlays on
In Site boundary, switch on the GIS overlay, use choose layers to pick exactly what you need, and set the overlay opacity.
The layers
| Group | Layers |
|---|---|
| Flood & water | Flood Zones 2 & 3, flood storage areas. |
| Landscape & nature | Green belt, National Landscapes (AONB), National Parks, SSSIs, ancient woodland, nature reserves, SACs, SPAs, Ramsar sites, heritage coast. |
| Heritage | Conservation areas, listed buildings, scheduled monuments, historic parks & gardens, World Heritage Sites. |
| Planning & land | Brownfield land, tree preservation zones, Article 4 directions, built-up areas, and utility/soil/crime layers. |
Every area and pin has a hover tooltip naming the designation.
Sources and credits
Each tooltip names its source. The planning, flood, heritage and nature layers come from planning.data.gov.uk and the Environment Agency. The utility layers (the group "Utilities (OpenStreetMap)") come from OpenStreetMap and are credited "© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL" (openstreetmap.org/copyright) in their tooltips, the site intelligence panel and the PDF planning report. OpenStreetMap is only as complete as its mappers have made it, so confirm services with a utility search before relying on them.
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