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GCN - Strategic Opportunity Areas (England)

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Updated
Oct 9, 2025

Description

This dataset identifies areas where the addition of new ponds would benefit Great Crested Newt populations defined as strategic opportunity areas (SOAs). These England-wide dataset incorporates the SOAs for all regional areas. The attribute “Strategy Area Name” defines these areas..The details below describe how the SOAs are scored for each region 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. Typically urban areas greater than 2ha (+400m buffer), roads (7.5m buffer), and rivers (+7.5m) have been excluded unless otherwise stated.. All scores are summed, scores ≤ 0 are not displayed. Higher scores are associated with darker colouration and represent a greater presence of suitable habitat features (density refers to the coverage of a habitat type with 250m of any 25m grid square): Cambridgeshire (Urban buffer reduced to 250m) Density of arable land 0-50% +1 Density of coniferous woodland 10-25% +1 Density of deciduous woodland…

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Files (15)

  • PDFGCN Strategic Opportunity Areas - England - Attribute Metadata.pdf
  • PDFGCN Strategic Opportunity Areas - England - Spatial Metadata.pdf
  • —GCN_DLL_Guidance_Online.url
  • ZIPGCN_Strategic_Opportunity_Areas_England.gdb.zip
  • ZIPGCN_Strategic_Opportunity_Areas_England.geojson.zip
  • ZIPGCN_Strategic_Opportunity_Areas_England.gpkg.zip
  • —GCN_Strategic_Opportunity_Areas_England.lyr
  • ZIPGCN_Strategic_Opportunity_Areas_England.shp.zip
  • —NE_Terms_of_Use_Licence.url
  • —ArcGIS Open Dataset record page
  • —Online guidance
  • —GCNStrategicOpportunityAreasEngland_Download
  • —GCNStrategicOpportunityAreasEngland_WFS
  • —GCNStrategicOpportunityAreasEngland_WMS
  • —GCNStrategicOpportunityAreasEngland_ESRIRESTMapService

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