As people around the world mobilise for the Global Day of Action for the Climate, the Environment Agency’s Mark Harvett, one of the Product Owners for the Water Resources Licensing Service, explains how a new email alert service will enable abstractors to be more in-step with available water resources.
Two members of the Digital delivery team responsible for Defra’s flagship Get a Fishing Licence service reflect on their recent experience of navigating the final stage of the Government Digital Service accreditation process, moving the service from Public Beta to Live.
Defra deals in data. And lots of it. A big part of the department’s job is to collect, process and, through careful service design, convert data into something useful for citizens, businesses and other agencies.
April is a busy month in our open data journey, as we make a number of significant flood-related datasets open including: Flood Map for Planning Areas that benefit from flood defences Flood storage areas Flood zones Spatial flood defences (without standardised …
You may know that Defra and Environment Agency have been involved with this year’s Geovation Challenge which the Secretary of State, Liz Truss MP, announced in her speech at the open environment launch. Geovation is all about promoting innovation in …
In September 2015 we made our extensive archive of LIDAR digital elevation models (DTM – digital terrain models; and DSM – digital surface models) covering over three quarters of England, available as open data. Since then, businesses, local communities and …
We like people using our data. The more it’s used, the more people will make well-informed decisions about the environment. Our new licences will help you to do that. It’s a reduction in red-tape, and it helps our staff focus …
Flood defences have been in the news this winter. We’re pleased to announce that in response to this we have brought forward our #OpenDefra plans to release a key flood defence dataset as open data from 1 April to today. …
Miranda Kavanagh, Executive Director of Evidence at the Environment Agency talks about how we are supporting the Geovation Water Challenge... As a member of the Defra Data Governance Board I'm pleased to confirm that the Environment Agency and Defra will be …
Today we have a short post from the retiring Environment Agency Chief Executive Dr Paul Leinster: I am coming to the end of my time as Chief Executive of the Environment Agency, an NDPB within the Department for the Environment …
