Identification

Title

GCN - Strategic Opportunity Areas (Somerset)

Alternative title(s)

Great Crested Newt - Strategic Opportunity Areas (Somerset)

Abstract

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 25m square where great crested newt presence has been predicted. Fringe areas contain a pond density of 1 and are located within a 25m 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 10 - 60% woodland density 5 - 60% arable density 0 - 50% These suitable habitat features have been given a score of ‘1’. Soil Type - Sand has 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. © Natural England, 2020 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. 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. © Somerset County Council Crown copyright and database rights 2015 Ordnance Survey licence number 100038382. © Sedgemoor District Council 2019 © South Somerset District Council 2019, Ordnance Survey Licence number 100019471 © Somerset West & Taunton Council 2019 © Mendip District Council 2019, Ordnance Survey Licence number 100019309 © 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

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

https://naturalengland-defra.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/gcn-strategic-opportunity-areas-swindon-and-wiltshire

protocol: WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link

name: ArcGIS Open Dataset record page

description: ArcGIS Open Dataset record page

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/great-crested-newts-district-level-licensing-schemes

protocol: WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link

name: Online guidance

description: Online guidance

Unique resource identifier

code

e6d49eda-8e13-42ce-975e-747b00b5bf67_resource

codeSpace

Dataset language

eng

Spatial reference system

code identifying the spatial reference system

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

Classification of spatial data and services

Topic category

environment

Keywords

Keyword set

keyword value

OpenData

Keyword set

keyword value

Species distribution

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2008-06-01

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

-3.41

East bounding longitude

-2.24

North bounding latitude

51.34

South bounding latitude

50.81

Extent

Extent group

authority code

code identifying the extent

http://data.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/doc/country/england

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

1999-01-01

End position

2099-12-31

Dataset reference date

date type

creation

effective date

2022-03-07

date type

publication

effective date

2022-05-19

Frequency of update

notPlanned

Quality and validity

Lineage

Data used to generate this derived data set includes the 2015 CEH Land Cover map (woodland, grassland, arable and urban land classifications), Cranfield National Soils Map (Sand), OS MasterMap (pond locations that have been converted by NE into pond densities), Natural England GCN Class Licence Survey Returns, NE GCN eDNA Pond Surveys 2017, 2018, 2019, Environment Agency Floodzone 2, OS Open Roads and OS Open Rivers, OS Boundary Line District Boundaries, Great Crested Newt data was provided by the Somerset Environmental Records Centre (SERC, www.somerc.com), Bristol Regional Environmental Records Centre and , allocations data were provided by Sedgemoor District Council, South Somerset District Council, Somerset West & Taunton Council and Mendip District Council. 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 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

Conformity

Data format

name of format

Open format | Shapefile (SHP)

version of format

10.2.2

Constraints related to access and use

Responsible organisations

Responsible party

organisation name

Natural England

email address

data.services@naturalengland.org.uk

web address

https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/natural-england

description: Natural England Website

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata on metadata

Metadata point of contact

organisation name

Natural England

email address

data.services@naturalengland.org.uk

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata date

2022-06-08

Metadata language