GCN - Strategic Opportunity Areas (Northumberland, Durham, Tyne & Wear and Tees Valley)
District Level Licensing Strategic Opportunity Areas for Great Crested Newts in Northumberland, Durham, Tyne & Wear and Tees Valley
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 25x25m square where great crested newt presence has been predicted. Fringe areas contain a pond density of 1 and are located within a 25x25m 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: Distance from rivers 100 - 1250m Elevation 0 - 200m Distance from deciduous woodland 0 - 100m Density of arable 0 - 33% Distance from urban > 350m Density of grassland 10 - 60% Nearest pond 0 - 500m These suitable habitat features have been given a score of ‘1’. Presence of coniferous woodland Presence of heather Presence of acid grassland Have been given a score of -2 Urban areas greater than 2ha (+400m buffer), roads (7.5m) and rivers (7.5m) © Natural England, 2021 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. © European Environment Agency, Copernicus Programme 2016 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. © Freshwater Habitats Trust, PondNet monitoring scheme 2018 Hartlepool Borough Council © Crown copyright and database rights 2020 Ordnance Survey 100023390 © Environmental Records Information Centre North East, 2020 North Tyneside Council © Crown copyright and database rights 2020; Northumberland National Park Authority © Crown copyright and database rights 2020; Durham County Council © Crown copyright and database rights 2020; Darlington Borough Council © Crown copyright and database rights 2019 Ordnance Survey 0100023729; Northumberland County Council © Crown copyright and database rights 2020; Newcastle City Council © Crown copyright and database rights 2020; Stockton on Tees Borough Council© Crown copyright and database rights 2020 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
dataset
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https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/great-crested-newts-district-level-licensing-schemes
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http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/27700
environment
biota
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Habitats and biotopes
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2008-06-01
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http://data.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/doc/country/england
2019-02-28
2099-12-31
creation
2020-10-06
publication
2021-03-15
notPlanned
2015 CEH Land Cover map (woodland, grassland, arable, heather and urban land classifications) EEA European Digital Elevation Model (EU – DEM) OS MasterMap (pond locations that have been converted by NE into pond densities) OS Open Rivers, OS Open Roads and OS Boundary Line (District Boundaries) Natural England GCN Class Licence Survey Returns and GCN eDNA Surveys Commissioned by Natural England Freshwater Habitats Trust Pond Net GCN data GCN data supplied by Hartlepool Borough Council and the Environmental Records Centre North East Allocations data supplied by: North Tyneside Council, Northumberland National Park, Durham County Council, Darlington Borough Council, Hartlepool Borough Council, Northumberland County Council, Newcastle City Council and Stockton on Tees Borough Council. 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 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
Open format | Shapefile (SHP)
10.2.2
Natural England
data.services@naturalengland.org.uk
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Natural England
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2022-06-28