GCN - Strategic Opportunity Areas (Dorset)

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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:

pH 6-7 Distance from grassland <100m Density of grassland 5-67% Distance from woodland <100m Density of woodland 5-67% Shannon-Weaver diversity -2 to -0.8 These suitable habitat features have been given a score of ‘1’.

Distance from arable land <250m Has been given a score of ‘-1’.

Urban areas > 2ha (+400m buffer), roads (7.5m), rivers (7.5m) and Environment Agency Flood Zone 2 have been excluded. Attribution statement: © 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. 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. © Dorset Environmental Records Centre 2019. Contains data supplied by: © Bournemouth Borough Council 2019 Ordnance Survey 100019829 © Christchurch and East Dorset 2019 Ordnance Survey 100024319 © North Dorset Council 2019 Ordnance Survey LA100013415 © Poole Council 2019 Ordnance Survey 100024248 © Purbeck District Council 2019, Ordnance Survey LA100022058 © West Dorset District Council 2019, Ordnance Survey 100024307 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

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Added to data.gov.uk
2025-05-19
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Harvest GUID
fced5a0b-9d46-4d6e-bb45-bd35337208ad
Extent
Latitude: 51.09° to °
Longitude: -2.96° to -1.68°
Spatial reference system
http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/27700
Dataset reference date
2019-02-28 (creation)
2021-01-15 (publication)
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