Woodland Opportunity Map 2025

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  • Woodland Opportunity Map - Air Pollution - Ammonia

    Air pollution mitigation is scored in the Woodland Opportunity Map (WOM) using two different datasets identifying the ability to mitigate …

  • Woodland Opportunity Map - Special Landscape Area (SLA)

    Special Landscape Areas (SLAs) are a non-statutory designation applied by a local authority to define areas of high landscape importance …

  • Woodland Opportunity Map - Tree Suitability

    This layer shows areas of Wales where a combined basket of 7 tree species can be expected to thrive under …

  • Woodland Opportunity Map - Carbon Sequestration

    This layer shows, from modelling at a spatial resolution of 250m2, the maximum possible tonnes of carbon sequestered per hectare …

  • Woodland Opportunity Map - World Heritage Site (WHS)

    World Heritage Sites are places that the World Heritage Committee of UNESCO has inscribed on a list of international sites …

  • Woodland Opportunity Map - Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) / Special Area of Conservation (SAC) 100/300m Buffer

    A Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) is an area selected on scientific criteria and protected under the Wildlife and …

  • Woodland Opportunity Map - Community Wards

    This data set was derived from Ordnance Survey boundary data showing Community Ward boundaries. This is intended to help work …

  • Woodland Opportunity Map - Diffuse Water Pollution

    This layer shows pollutant impacts on water quality within Water Framework Directive (WFD) sub-catchments – specifically focused on Phosphate (P), …

  • Woodland Opportunity Map - Acid Sensitive Catchment

    Forestry is known to affect the acidification of waters, principally due to the ability of forest canopies to capture more …

  • Woodland Opportunity Map - Priority Habitat Mosaics - Investigation Required

    This “Priority Habitat Mosaics- Investigation Required” data layer shows land that consists of large mosaics of upland habitats - mixtures …

  • Woodland Opportunity Map - Great Crested Newt (GCN) Potential Habitat - Voluntary

    This is not a mandatory consultation layer. The areas shown in this layer and associated guidance here does not have …

  • Woodland Opportunity Map - Welsh Archaeological Trusts

    Shows areas of consultation for each Welsh Archaeological Trusts - this is useful as a reference for working out the …

  • Woodland Opportunity Map - Woodland Creation Score

    This overall scoring layer gives a strategic overview of the areas which have the best opportunities for woodland creation. The …

  • Woodland Opportunity Map - Potential Habitat for Great Crested Newts

    Great crested newts are a European protected species, and deliberate killing injuring or disturbing individuals or damaging or destroying their …

  • Woodland Opportunity Map - Air Pollution - PM2.5

    Air pollution mitigation is scored in the Woodland Opportunity Map (WOM) using two different datasets identifying the ability to mitigate …

  • Woodland Opportunity Map - Potential Habitat for Open-ground Dependent Birds

    Chough, Curlew, Golden Plover, and Lapwing are all species of particular conservation concern, for which woodland creation could be particularly …

  • Woodland Opportunity Map - Potential Habitat for Fritillary Butterflies over Bracken

    The data layer shows areas of bracken which may support fritillary butterfly populations. The butterfly areas are derived from records …

  • Woodland Opportunity Map - Non-Habitat Land

    This layer shows areas identified by Natural Resources Wales (NRW) as not sensitive to woodland creation. This includes habitat that …

  • Woodland Opportunity Map - Historic Environment Features (HEF)

    This data layer identifies a number of known historic environment features and landscapes that retain a physical presence, but which …

  • Woodland Opportunity Map - Woodland Habitat Network

    This layer shows where tree planting is encouraged to achieve more robust and resilient woodland networks to benefit biodiversity. Woodland …

  • Woodland Opportunity Map - Historic Landscape Area (HLA)

    This data layer represents the amalgamated character areas of the Registered Landscapes of Outstanding and of Special Interest in Wales. …

  • Woodland Opportunity Map - Grassland Fungi

    Grassland fungi assemblages and some individual species are on the Section 7 of the Environment (Wales) Act 2016 list and …

  • Woodland Opportunity Map - Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB)

    An Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) is an area of high scenic quality which has statutory protection in order …

  • Woodland Opportunity Map - Commons

    This datalayer shows registered Common Land in Wales. Woodland creation on common land may affect access and other rights held …

  • Woodland Opportunity Map - Red Squirrel Areas

    Red squirrels are a Protected Species (Schedule 5, Wildlife & Countryside Act, 1981) and are classified as Endangered in Wales. …

  • Woodland Opportunity Map - Scheduled Monument

    Under the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Areas Act 1979 (as amended by the Historic Environment (Wales) Act, 2016) the Welsh …

  • Woodland Opportunity Map - Priority Habitat - High Sensitivity

    This “Priority Habitat - High Sensitivity” data layer shows semi-natural habitats which are listed as priority habitats under Section 7 …

  • Woodland Opportunity Map - Registered Historic Parks & Gardens

    Historic parks and gardens are part of Wales’s national identity. They enrich the texture and pattern of our landscapes and …

  • Woodland Opportunity Map - Wales High Water Mark

    Wales (High water mark). This data has been derived from Ordnance Survey Boundary-Line data. https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/business-and-government/products/boundary-line.html

  • Woodland Opportunity Map - Scheduled Monument (SM) 50m Buffer

    Under the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Areas Act 1979 (as amended by the Historic Environment (Wales) the Welsh Ministers, through …

  • Woodland Opportunity Map - Potential Habitat for Water Voles

    Water vole is a Protected Species (Schedule 5, Wildlife & Countryside Act, 1981) and is the fastest declining mammal across …

  • Woodland Opportunity Map - Ancient Woodland Inventory 21

    This dataset comprises of the boundaries of Ancient Woodland sites in Wales which are those which have been wooded for …

  • Woodland Opportunity Map - Regionally Important Geodiversity Site (RIGS)

    Regionally Important Geodiversity Site (RIGS) are non-statutory local designations including the most important places for geology, geomorphology and soils outside …

  • Woodland Opportunity Map - Open Access

    This dataset shows land designated as Open Access land under the Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000 (CROW) over …

  • Woodland Opportunity Map - Sensitive Arable Plants

    This dataset is based on recent records of rare arable plants (2000 to 2017) and the field in which they …

  • Woodland Opportunity Map - National Park
    National Parks are extensive tracts of country that are protected by law for future generations because of their …

  • Woodland Opportunity Map - Social Benefits

    This layer shows where woodland creation is expected to contribute to social benefits of improved mental health and access to …

  • Woodland Opportunity Map - Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) and Special Area of Conservation (SAC)

    A Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) is an area selected on scientific criteria and protected under the Wildlife and …

  • Woodland Opportunity Map - Flood Mitigation

    This layer shows where woodland creation will potentially alleviate flooding. This data layer comes from “Working with Natural Processes” (WWNP) …

  • Woodland Opportunity Map - Water Bodies

    This layer shows mapped water bodies in Wales. These are present to indicate areas that are highly likely to be …

  • Woodland Opportunity Map - Deep Peat

    Deep peat is an important resource in Wales as a carbon store, contributing to the regulation of water flow and …

  • Woodland Opportunity Map - Upland Special Protection Areas (SPA) 500m Buffer

    Special Protection Areas (SPAs) are strictly protected sites classified in accordance with Article 4 of the EC Birds Directive and …

  • Woodland Opportunity Map - Upland Special Protection Areas (SPA)

    Special Protection Areas (SPAs) are strictly protected sites classified in accordance with Article 4 of the EC Birds Directive and …

  • Woodland Opportunity Map - National Forest Inventory (NFI) 2023

    This layer shows mapped woodland areas in Wales. These are present to indicate areas that are highly likely to be …

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