Identification

Title

EWCO - Flood Risk Management

Alternative title(s)

Abstract

Spatial data supporting appropriately located and designed woodland creation to help reduce flood risk by slowing flood flows and increasing the retention and infiltration of water on the land. The layer shows where there is ‘Opportunity for Floodplain’ woodland creation and ‘Opportunity for Wider Catchment’ woodland creation. Appropriately located and designed proposals can help reduce flood risk by slowing flood flows and increasing the retention and infiltration of water on the land by creating; woodland in the wider catchment – creating woodland here can help to, reduce fertiliser and pesticide usage, protect sensitive soils from disturbance and erosion, increase infiltration and reduce water runoff and intercept sediment and chemical pollutants in run-off, reducing the delivery of pollutants to watercourses. Floodplain woodland – creating woodland here can act as a permeable partial barrier to a river when in flood, helping to slow flood flows. Riparian woodland – creating woodland along watercourses can create a buffer between rivers and the adjacent land, reducing water temperature by providing shade and slowing flood flow water delivery to watercourses. Cross-slope woodland – creating smaller areas (typically shelterbelts) of woodland (all types) across hill slopes can reduce rapid runoff from higher land. Trees also encourage infiltration and increase the soil’s water storage capacity. Data input sources: - Spatial prioritisation of catchments suitable for Natural Flood Management (Environment Agency) - Flood Map for Planning (Rivers and Sea) - Flood Zone 3 (Environment Agency) - Soil-derived spatial prioritisation of woodland creation for NFM in the wider catchment (Forest Research) Attributes: ‘LANDSCAPE’ – the targeting category: Opportunity for Floodplain Woodland / Opportunity for Wider Catchment Woodland. ‘AreaHa’ – Area of the feature in hectares. Attribution Statement: Contains OS data © Crown copyright [and database right] [year].

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

https://data-forestry.opendata.arcgis.com/

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

name: EWCO - Flood Risk Management

description: Forestry Commission Open Data Site

Unique resource identifier

code

a1fdf1f9-c208-4b1d-8c64-2ab00476df18

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

GB

Keyword set

keyword value

Hydrography

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2008-06-01

Keyword set

keyword value

surface runoff

agricultural pollution

environment

forestry

flood protection

surface water

flooding

flood

flood runoff

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2010-01-13

Keyword set

keyword value

OpenData

Woodland

Flooding

Flood Risk

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

-6.99382205

East bounding longitude

2.82806117

North bounding latitude

56.3930315

South bounding latitude

49.33029269

Extent

Extent group

authority code

code identifying the extent

GB-ENG

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

2022-12-20

End position

2022-12-20T00:05:00

Dataset reference date

date type

creation

effective date

2022-12-20

date type

revision

effective date

2022-12-20

Frequency of update

unknown

Quality and validity

Lineage

First published to support the woodland creation grant under Countryside Stewardship (CS), launched in 2015. The layer methodology was then revised by Forest Research and the layer was updated in 2022 to cater for the new England Woodland Creation Offer (EWCO) scheme. A detailed methodology describing the development of this layer can be requested from evidence@forestrycommission.gov.uk.

Conformity

Data format

name of format

Open format | Shapefile (SHP)

version of format

1998

Constraints related to access and use

Constraint set

Use constraints

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

Constraint set

Limitations on public access

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

Responsible organisations

Responsible party

organisation name

Forestry Commission

email address

forester.geodata@forestresearch.gov.uk

web address

http://www.forestry.gov.uk/

description: Forestry Commission Website

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata on metadata

Metadata point of contact

organisation name

Forestry Commission

email address

forester.geodata@forestresearch.gov.uk

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata date

2023-02-27

Metadata language