GCN - Strategic Opportunity Areas (Northumberland, Durham, Tyne & Wear and Tees Valley)

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• Last updated: 23 November 2023
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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 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) Attribution statement: © 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

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• Added to data.gov.uk: 2023-10-23
• Access contraints: There are no public access constraints to this data. Use of this data is subject to the licence identified.
• Harvest GUID: 67873924-3a9f-4c8e-867d-cfee91b5ad12
• Extent: Latitude: 55.81° to 54.45°
• Extent: Longitude: -2.62° to -1.16°
• Spatial reference system: http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/27700
• Dataset reference date: 2020-10-06 (creation)
• Dataset reference date: 2021-03-15 (publication)
• Frequency of update: notPlanned
• Responsible party: Natural England (pointOfContact)
• ISO 19139 resource type: dataset
• Metadata language: eng
• Source Metadata: XML
• Source Metadata: HTML

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