GCN - Strategic Opportunity Areas (Somerset)

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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 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. 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. 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

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2023-10-23
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Harvest GUID
e6d49eda-8e13-42ce-975e-747b00b5bf67
Extent
Latitude: 51.34° to 50.81°
Longitude: -3.41° to -2.24°
Spatial reference system
http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/27700
Dataset reference date
2022-03-07 (creation)
2022-05-19 (publication)
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notPlanned
Responsible party
Natural England (pointOfContact)
ISO 19139 resource type
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Metadata language
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