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Countryside Stewardship Scoring Woodland Improvement England 2016/2017

Countryside Stewardship Scoring Woodland Improvement England 2016/2017

Summary

This dataset was used for scoring Higher Tier Countryside Stewardship applications for Woodland Improvement in England for 2016/17. Countryside Stewardship (CS) was launched in 2015 and is a Rural Development Programme for England (RDPE) grant scheme. It will contribute around £900 million over six years to help farmers and woodland managers look after the environment. Countryside Stewardship grants are open to those who propose to make the best environmental improvements within their local area. Although it is open to everyone who is eligible to apply it is competitive and targeted. Attributes: Category = The priority level assigned for use in scoring the application

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Use limitation statement

There are no public access constraints to this data. Use of this data is subject to the licence identified.

Licence

Contains Forestry Commission information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Attribution statement

Contains OS data © Crown copyright [and database right] [year].

Technical information

Update frequency

asNeeded

Lineage

Woodland types were selected from the National Forest Inventory which were then categorized as being managed or unmanaged based on previous Felling Licence Applications and grants activity. Based on the combination of NFI woodland type and the managed/unmanaged categorisation, a scoring of High and Lower Spatial Priority was assigned.

Spatial information

Coordinate reference system

http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/27700

Geographic extent

Latitude from: 49.943 to 55.816
Longitude from: -6.236 to 2.072

Metadata information

Language

English

Metadata identifier

4e5af473-d914-4790-9a88-e58fe367a85c

Published by

Forestry Commission

Contact publisher

mapping.geodata@forestry.gov.uk

Dataset reference dates

Creation date

31 March 2016

Revision date