GCN - Strategic Opportunity Areas (Kent)

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 such as grassland (+250m buffer), woodland (+250m buffer), and within 100m-1000m range of a river. These suitable habitat features have been given a score of ‘1’ and where more of these features overlap, there is a higher score. Arable land is also included but has been given a score of ‘-1’. Urban areas greater than 2ha (+400m buffer), roads (7.5m buffer) and rivers (+7.5m) have been excluded. © Natural England 2018, reproduced with the permission of Natural England, http://www.naturalengland.org.uk/copyright/. © Crown Copyright and database rights 2018. Based upon LCM2007 © NERC (CEH) [Year]. © Crown Copyright 2007, Licence number 100017572. © third party licensors Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown Copyright 2007, Licence number 100017572. Contains, or is derived from, information supplied by Ordnance Survey. © Crown copyright and database rights 2018 Ordnance Survey 100022021.