Products

Staffordshire Ecological Record can supply a variety of information from its databases:

Information Available

  • Dot maps for sites & species
  • Details of biological & geological sites
  • Habitat distribution data
  • Precise boundary maps
  • Species lists for sites and site lists for species

Free Enquiries

Under normal circumstances enquiries from ‘not-for-profit’ bodies are supplied free of charge, providing the enquiry does not incur an excessive amount of SER staff time, in these cases an administration charge may be applied. This includes

  • General Public
  • Educational Bodies & Students
  • Nature Conservation Societies & Groups

Providing the allotment of SER time has not been exceeded, the funding partners in SER have a free enquiry service in addition to the downloads supplied from the SER databases. This also includes contractors working on behalf of the partner organisation, unless waived by the partner.

Option 1

£75
  • A map showing the location of 100m precision records of UK & European protected species excluding badgers
  • Lists of UK/European protected species and UKBAP/NERC Priority Species in Excel® format, including badgers at reduced precision with a separate detailed list[5] of badgers for internal use only.
  • Specialized Species Searches:
  • 1a - Bats only
  • 1b - Great Crested Newt (Triturus cristatus) only
  • 1c - Invasive Species (as an addition to the main listings - £30)
Request data search

Option 2

£75
  • A map showing the location of the data search indicating the location of statutory sites, together with the location and extent of non-statutory nature conservation sites including:
  • Statutory: Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI), National Nature Reserves (NNR), Local Nature Reserves (LNR)
  • Non-statutory: Local Wildlife Sites[6] (LWS), Biodiversity Alert Sites (BAS), Local Geodiversity Sites[7] (LGS)
  • Ancient Woodland Inventory sites (AWI)
  • A list of the sites shown on the map
Request data search

Option 3

£135
  • Combined Sites and Species Search
  • A combination of option 1 and option 2, Note: the sites and species maps will usually be combined as a single map
Request data search

Option 4

£125/185
  • Citations for Non-statutory Sites
  • 4a - Base of option 2 plus citations for the non-statutory sites (£125)
  • 4b - Base of option 3 plus citations for the non-statutory sites (£185)
Request data search

Option 5 (supplement)

£45
  • Cross-boundary Searches
  • If the client search area crosses the county boundary with one of the West Midlands' LERCs then we can offer to obtain the data from the adjacent LERC on the client's behalf
  • NOTE: This option is only available if the area in the adjacent county is less than 1km2
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Additional Information

  1.  All quoted prices are excluding VAT at the current rate
  2. The cost will be reduced by 40% of the original quotation if no data is found in the search
  3. Payment is normally by invoice, but SER reserves the right to ask for payment before completing the search
  4. This is only available where the area in the adjacent LERC is less than 1km²
  5. This detailed list is only supplied to bona fide ecological consultants
  6. In Staffordshire Local Wildlife sites are often termed Sites of Biological Importance (SBI).
  7. Local Geodiversity Sites were previously known as Regionally Important Geological/geomorphological Sites (RIGS) and may still be referenced as this in some documents.