Identification

Title
Focus Area for policy SAF_01b for safeguarding recreational boating activity
Abstract

This layer shows the focus area for policy SAF_01b area for safeguarding recreational boating activity (i.e. the areas which are most significant for sector activity), which applies at the date of the publication of the Marine Planning Techincal Technical Statement: Safeguarding policy for recreation boating in March 2023.

The focus area for policy SAF_01b for safeguarding recreational boating activity (i.e. the areas which are most significant for sector activity) was derived from the RYA UK Coastal Atlas of Recreational Boating (2019). The RYA Coastal Atlas layers can be found on the Wales Marine Planning Portal under the Sectors category, then Tourism and Recreation subcategory. For context and to provide a more complete picture of recreational boating activity, we recommend viewing the SAF_01b Area together with the original RYA Coastal Atlas layers.

The RYA dataset utilises AIS data from recreational vessels for May to September of 2014 and 2017 to determine the intensity of boating activity in coastal waters around the UK. Within the Welsh Marine Plan Area, relative intensity ranges from 0.3 to 3.4 on a logarithmic scale. The focus area was identified based on a minimum intensity of 1 on this scale, indicating areas of medium to high intensity boating activity.

To provide a more complete picture of recreational boating activity, the focus area for policy SAF_01b for recreational Boating also includes General Boating Areas as defined in the RYA Atlas.

Small, isolated patches of apparent boating activity were removed from the focus area for policy SAF_01b. Boundaries of the focus area were simplified to help ensure that the main recreational boating areas were represented while allowing a clear area to be defined.

Licence
Open Government Licence for Public Sector Information (OGL)

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Spatial data
Category:
Oceans

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Regions
Global
Approved
Yes
Published
Yes
Featured
No
Group
Geography & Technology

Information

Spatial extent
Projection system
EPSG:27700
Extension x0
172137.79865937
Extension x1
350964.799900651
Extension y0
154942.688100513
Extension y1
398426.613530346

Features

Spatial Representation Type
Vector data is used to represent geographic data

Contact

Email
data@gov.wales
Organisation
Welsh Government
Department
Geography & Technology

References

Link online
/layers/appdata-wg-marine:recreational_boating_saf01b_area
Metadata page
/layers/appdata-wg-marine:recreational_boating_saf01b_area/metadata_detail

OGC Geopackage
Focus Area for policy SAF_01b for safeguarding recreational boating activity.gpkg
DXF
Focus Area for policy SAF_01b for safeguarding recreational boating activity.dxf
GML 2.0
Focus Area for policy SAF_01b for safeguarding recreational boating activity.gml
Zipped Shapefile
Focus Area for policy SAF_01b for safeguarding recreational boating activity.zip
GML 3.1.1
Focus Area for policy SAF_01b for safeguarding recreational boating activity.gml
CSV
Focus Area for policy SAF_01b for safeguarding recreational boating activity.csv
Excel
Focus Area for policy SAF_01b for safeguarding recreational boating activity.excel
GeoJSON
Focus Area for policy SAF_01b for safeguarding recreational boating activity.json

OWS endpoints

WMS
WFS