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Habitat Guides

Guides to all the different BNG habitat types

Habitat Guide: unvegetated garden
Habitat Type: Arable field margins game bird mix
Habitat Type: Arable field margins tussocky
Habitat Type: Cereal crops
Habitat Type: Temporary grass and clover leys
Habitat Type: Bracken
Habitat Type: Built linear features
Habitat Type: Canals
Habitat Type: Culvert
Habitat Type: Rain Garden
Habitat Type: Bare Ground
Habitat Types: Tall forbs
Habitat Type: Ground level planters
Habitat Type: Bramble scrub
Habitat Type: Rhododendron scrub
Habitat Type: Other sea buckthorn scrub
Habitat Type: Hazel scrub
Habitat Type: Mixed scrub
Habitat Type: Blackthorn scrub
Habitat type: artificial unvegetated, unsealed surface
Habitat type: Arable field margins cultivated annually
Habitat Type: Horticulture
Habitat type: Intensive orchards
Habitat Type: Non-cereal crops
Habitat Type: Line of Trees
Habitat Type: Non-native and ornamental hedgerow
Habitat Type: Other woodland; broadleaved
Habitat Type: Other coniferous woodland
Habitat Type: Other Scot's pine woodland
Habitat Type: Vacant or derelict land
Habitat Type: Vegetated Garden
Habitat Type: Other green roof
Habitat Type: Actively worked sand pit quarry or open cast mine
Habitat Type: Introduced shrub
Habitat Type: Willow scrub
Habitat Type: Gorse scrub
Habitat Type: Hawthorn scrub
Habitat type: Grassland - Modified grassland
Habitat type: Grassland - Other neutral grassland
Habitat Type: Developed land; sealed surface
Habitat Type: Arable field margins pollen and nectar
Habitat type: Grassland - Other lowland acid grassland
Habitat type: Grassland - Upland acid grassland
Habitat Type: Native hedgerow - associated with bank or ditch
Habitat Type: Native hedgerow with trees
Habitat Type: Species-rich native hedgerow
Habitat Type: Rural / Urban Trees
Habitat Type: Lakes - Ornamental lake or pond
Habitat Type: Lakes - Reservoirs
Habitat type: Line of trees - associated with bank or ditch
Habitat Type: Bioswale
Habitat Type: Pond (non-Priority)
Habitat Type: Ruderal/Ephemeral
Habitat Type: Other inland rock and scree
Habitat Type: Artificial saltmarshes and saline reedbeds
Habitat type: Watercourses - Ditches
Habitat Type: Native hedgerow
Habitat Type: Artificial littoral biogenic reefs
Habitat Type: Intertidal hard structures - Artificial hard structures
Habitat Type: Intertidal hard structures - Artificial features of hard structures
Habitat Type: Intertidal hard structures - Artificial hard structures with integrated greening of grey infrastructure (IGGI)
Habitat Type: Intertidal sediment - Artificial littoral seagrass
Habitat Type: Artificial littoral sand
Habitat Type: Artificial littoral muddy sand
Habitat Type: Artificial littoral mud
Habitat Type: Artificial littoral mixed sediments
Habitat Type: Littoral sand
Habitat Type: Littoral coarse sediment
Habitat Type: Allotments
Habitat Type: Cemeteries and churchyard
Habitat Type: Biodiverse green roof
Habitat Type: Intensive green roof
Habitat Type: Ground based green wall
Habitat Type: Façade-based green wall
Habitat Type: Winter stubble
Habitat Type: Ecologically valuable line of trees
Habitat Type: Ecologically valuable line of trees - associated with bank or ditch
Habitat Type: Other woodland; mixed
Habitat Type: Sustainable drainage system
Habitat Type: Coastal lagoons
Habitat Type: Saltmarshes and saline reedbeds
Habitat type: Grassland - Lowland calcareous grassland
Habitat type: Grassland - Lowland meadows
Habitat type: Grassland - Upland calcareous grassland
Habitat type: Grassland - Upland hay meadows
Habitat Type: Littoral biogenic reefs - Mussels
Habitat Type: Littoral biogenic reefs - Sabellaria
Habitat Type: Intertidal sediment - Littoral seagrass
Habitat Type: Artificial littoral coarse sediment
Habitat Type: Features of littoral sediment
Habitat Type: Littoral mixed sediments
Habitat Type: Littoral mud
Habitat Type: Littoral muddy sand
Habitat Type: Lakes - High alkalinity lakes
Habitat Type: Lakes - Low alkalinity lakes
Habitat Type: Lakes - Marl lakes
Habitat Type: Lakes - Moderate alkalinity lakes
Habitat Type: Lakes - Peat lakes
Habitat Type: Limestone Pavement
Habitat Type: Sparsely vegetated land - Coastal sand dunes
Habitat Type: Sparsely vegetated land - Coastal vegetated shingle
Habitat type: Grassland - Lowland dry acid grassland
Habitat type: Grassland - Tall herb communities (H6430)
Habitat type: Sparsely vegetated land - Calaminarian grassland
Habitat Type: Heathland and shrub - Lowland heathland
Habitat Type: Heathland and shrub - Upland heathland
Habitat Type: Species-rich native hedgerow with trees
Habitat Type: Sparsely vegetated land - Maritime cliff and slopes
Habitat Type: Heathland and shrub - Mountain heaths and willow scrub
Habitat Type: Native hedgerow with trees - associated with bank or ditch
Habitat Type: Species-rich native hedgerow - associated with bank or ditch
Habitat Type: Species-rich native hedgerow with trees - associated with bank or ditch
Habitat Type: Intertidal sediment - Littoral seagrass - on peat, clay or chalk
Habitat Type: Lakes - Temporary lakes ponds and pools (H3170)
Habitat Type: Lakes - Aquifer fed naturally fluctuating waterbodies