Identification

Title
WOM21 Deep Peat and Modified Deep Peat
Abstract
<p>Deep peat is defined in the UK Forestry Standard (UKFS) as soil having a predominantly organic (peat) layer, of depth greater than 50 cm. Deep peat is especially important as a resource in Wales, as a carbon store, as well as an important substrate to support specialist habitats. Peat is also under threat from climate change, and land management techniques including cutting and draining. The remaining deep peat and modified deep peat should therefore remain protected from development, and this includes woodland creation, which may dry out existing deep peat. Areas of deep peat must be removed from woodland creation proposals. Forest Research (2012) completed a report which attempted to identify all areas of peatland across Wales. Spatial datasets of soils, geology and vegetation were assessed and combined to produce a map of peat resource. The deep peat, and modified deep peat layers developed within this project were used to represent a peatland sensitivity layer within the opportunity map. For more information, see GN002, including the appeals process should you have reason to believe deep peat is not present on your site of interest, but is according to this data layer.</p> <p>Use of the WOM21 Deep Peat and Modified Deep Peat spatial dataset is subject to the <strong>Non-Commercial Government Licence for Public Sector information</strong>. This dataset has been made available to download for <strong>non-commercial use only.</strong> The licensing conditions can be found <strong><a title="Licence" href="https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/non-commercial-government-licence/version/2/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a></strong>.</p> <p>When using these data, the following attribution statement is to be included: &ldquo;<em>This dataset is derived in part from the National Soil Map @ 1:250,000 scale, &copy; Cranfield University (NSRI) and for the Controller of HMSO 2022</em>."</p>
Licence
Non-Commercial Government Licence for public sector information

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None

Creation Date
Type
Spatial data
Keywords
features, GWC21_Deep_Peat_and_Modified_Deep_Peat
Regions
United Kingdom
Approved
Yes
Published
Yes
Featured
No
Group
Geography & Technology

Information

Spatial extent
Projection system
EPSG:27700
Extension x0
172223.984375
Extension x1
352114.75
Extension y0
174931.0
Extension y1
394362.1875

Features

Restrictions
<p>Use of the WOM21 Deep Peat and Modified Deep Peat spatial dataset is subject to the <strong>Non-Commercial Government Licence for Public Sector information</strong>. This dataset has been made available to download for <strong>non-commercial use only.</strong> The licensing conditions can be found <strong><a title="Licence" href="https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/non-commercial-government-licence/version/2/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a></strong>.</p> <p>When using these data, the following attribution statement is to be included: &ldquo;<em>This dataset is derived in part from the National Soil Map @ 1:250,000 scale, &copy; Cranfield University (NSRI) and for the Controller of HMSO 2022</em>."</p>
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/geonode:GWC21_Deep_Peat_and_Modified_Deep_Peat
Metadata page
/layers/geonode:GWC21_Deep_Peat_and_Modified_Deep_Peat/metadata_detail

Zipped Shapefile
WOM21 Deep Peat and Modified Deep Peat.zip
OGC Geopackage
WOM21 Deep Peat and Modified Deep Peat.gpkg
DXF
WOM21 Deep Peat and Modified Deep Peat.dxf
GML 2.0
WOM21 Deep Peat and Modified Deep Peat.gml
GML 3.1.1
WOM21 Deep Peat and Modified Deep Peat.gml
CSV
WOM21 Deep Peat and Modified Deep Peat.csv
Excel
WOM21 Deep Peat and Modified Deep Peat.excel
GeoJSON
WOM21 Deep Peat and Modified Deep Peat.json

OWS endpoints

WMS
WFS