Natural England - Licence Natural England-owned information for commercial use
Licence Natural England-owned information for commercial use
Natural England owns a large collection of information: reports, technical information notes, databases, images and geographical information system (GIS) datasets.
Much of this is detailed in our Publications Catalogue, or through the MAGIC website. However, only the most frequently requested items are listed here, so if you think we might have anything else of use to you, please contact our Enquiry Service who will refer you to the correct specialist.
Using our data and information
Most of our information is available free of charge for non-commercial purposes like personal study, research, criticism, news reporting and review. All we ask is that you acknowledge Natural England as the owner of the data and abide by our Terms of Use 
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However, if you want to use our information for business or commercial purposes, you’ll need to apply for a commercial licence.
Geographical information on environmental assets where Natural England has the powers to designate and regulate can be freely viewed by all organisations through our product Nature on the Map. If you want to download this information and incorporate it within your own products, or if you want to use this information regularly for internal business use, then a commercial licence is required.
Some of our information is derived from other sources, that is, it could be based on underlying intellectual property that belongs to others. Our GIS datasets, for example, are based on underlying mapping data from the Ordnance Survey, so you will need a separate licence from the Ordnance Survey to use such datasets commercially.
Natural England images can be licensed for commercial use, and a project to develop a commercial image library is currently under review.
Commercial licence
Applying for a commercial licence will incur an administration charge of £100.
To date, we have not normally charged a royalty for commercial reuse of Natural England information, but we reserve the right to do so. Our policy in this area is currently under review.
Where charges are introduced, they will be displayed on our internet site in due course. We’re very keen that people do use our data, and our charges will always be transparent, reasonable and proportionate.
