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Environmental Indicator E7: Healthy soils – technical documentation for a soil health indicator for England’s Environmental Improvement Plan 2026

Abstract

This report (JNCC Report 818) acts as the technical documentation for an initial, interim soil health statistic for England, explaining the detail of the methods behind the results. It is planned that these methods will be updated, and this documentation overwritten, as development work continues and a final baseline statistic is produced.

The statistic has been designed for use against the Environmental Improvement Plan’s Environmental Indicator Framework, and has been published by JNCC as an Official Statistic Under Development. Results can be found in the associated indicator webpage.

Accompanying the report is a datafile, provided in Excel and Open Document Spreadsheet (ODS) format, which contains the data used to produce the graphs presented on the Indicators of soil Health for England webpage.

This report provides an update to, and replaces, JNCC Report 793 (25 Year Environment Plan Outcome Indicator E7: Healthy soils – proposed method for a soil health indicator for England), which was published in 2025 and is available via The National Archives website.

These resources may not be fully accessible for all users. If you need copies in a different or more accessible format, please contact Communications@jncc.gov.uk.

Resource type Publication

Topic category Environment

Reference date 2026·03·25

Lineage
This report was produced by JNCC for Defra through the Healthy Soils Indicator project.

Responsible organisation
Communications, JNCC publisher

Limitations on public access No limitations

Use constraints Available under the Open Government Licence 3.0

Metadata date 2026·03·25

Metadata point of contact
Communications, JNCC

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