GCN - Strategic Opportunity Areas (Swindon and Wiltshire)
Summary
This dataset identifies areas where the addition of new ponds would benefit Great Crested Newt populations. The core areas contain a pond density of 2+ ponds and are located within a 1km square where great crested newt presence has been predicted. Fringe areas contain a pond density of 1 and are located within a 1km square where great crested newt presence has been predicted or are within a 250m of a Core Area. Higher scores are associated with darker colouration and represent a greater presence of suitable habitat features: grassland density 25% - 75% distance to woodland 0 - 100m arable density 0 - 50% within 100m - 1500m of a river a pH 6.5 - 8. These suitable habitat features have been given a score of ‘1’. Urban areas greater than 2ha (+400m buffer), roads (7.5m), rivers (7.5m) and Environment Agency Flood Zone 2 have been excluded.
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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.
Attribution statement
© Natural England, 2022 Based upon LCM2015 © NERC (CEH) 2011. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown Copyright 2007. Based upon LCM2015 © NERC (CEH) 2017. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown Copyright 2007, Licence number 100017572. Contains data supplied by Natural Environment Research Council © NERC (Centre for Ecology & Hydrology) and © Natural England. Soils Data © Cranfield University (NSRI) and for the Controller of HMSO 2019. Based upon LCM2007 © NERC (CEH) 2011. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown Copyright 2007. © third party licensors. Contains, or is derived from, information supplied by the Ordnance Survey and Rural Payments Agency. © Crown copyright and database rights 2019. Contains data supplied by Swindon Borough Council © Swindon Borough Council 2019 Ordnance Survey 100024296. Contains data supplied by Wiltshire Council © Wiltshire Council 2019 Ordnance Survey 100049050. © WSBRC Crown Copyright and database rights (2019) Ordnance Survey Licence Number 100005798. © Freshwater Habitats Trust, PondNet monitoring scheme 2018 © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2018. All rights reserved. Some features of this map are based on digital spatial data from the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, © NERC (CEH). © Crown copyright and database rights 2018 Ordnance Survey 100024198. Contains, or is derived from, information supplied by Ordnance Survey. © Crown copyright and database rights 2020 Ordnance Survey 100022021. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right, 2020
Technical information
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notPlanned
Lineage
Data used to generate this derived data set includes the 2015 CEH Land Cover map (woodland, grassland, and arable land classifications), OS MasterMap (pond locations that have been converted by NE into pond densities), NE / CEH Natural Capital (pH), Natural Engalnd GCN Class License Survey Returns England, Natural England GCN Pond Surveys DLL 17 18 19, OS Open Rivers, OS Open Roads, Environment Agency Flood Map - Flood Zone 2, OS Boundary Line District Boundaries, National Parks, Freshwater Habitats Trust Pond Net GCN data, Wiltshire & Swindon Environmental Records Centre GCN data and Allocations data from Swindon Borough Council and Wiltshire Council. Great Crested Newt data was provided by the Wiltshire & Swindon Biological Records Centre (WSBRC, http://wsbrc.org.uk) DOI for LCM2015 25m raster data for Great Britain: Rowland, C.S.; Morton, R.D.; Carrasco, L.; McShane, G.; O’Neil, A.W.; Wood, C.M. (2017) Land Cover Map 2015 (25m raster, GB). NERC Environmental Information Data Centre. https://doi.org/10.5285/bb15e200-9349-403c-bda9-b430093807c7 DOI for LCM2015 Vector data for Great Britain: Rowland, C.S.; Morton, R.D.; Carrasco, L.; McShane, G.; O’Neil, A.W.; Wood, C.M. (2017) Land Cover Map 2015 (vector, GB). NERC Environmental Information Data Centre. https://doi.org/10.5285/6c6c9203-7333-4d96-88ab-78925e7a4e73
Spatial information
Coordinate reference system
http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/27700Geographic extent
- Latitude from: 50.943911 to 51.702702
- Longitude from: -2.370324 to -1.490199
Metadata information
Language
English
Metadata identifier
dff44e52-5c90-4b83-948a-17e6b316312f
Published by
Natural England
Contact publisher
data.services@naturalengland.org.ukDataset reference dates
Creation date
25 February 2022
Revision date
N/A
Publication date
19 May 2022
Period
- From: 01 June 2020
- To: 01 June 2020