Identification

Title
Woodland Opportunity Map - Flood Mitigation
Abstract

This layer shows where woodland creation will potentially alleviate flooding. This data layer comes from “Working with Natural Processes” (WWNP) - a research programme led by the Environment Agency in collaboration with Defra, Natural Resources Wales (NRW) and Welsh Government. The programme aims to protect, restore and emulate the natural functions of catchments, floodplains, rivers and the coast. As part of the programme, a set of maps indicating where natural process measures could contribute towards flood risk mitigation was produced. This included a woodland dataset for Wales covering Floodplain woodland, Riparian woodland, and Wider catchment woodland.

This is modelled data that provides a simple view of potential target planting areas, but without considering complex catchment characteristics. This is used to provide a scoring layer. While the different woodland types could provide a possible scoring hierarchy, this is very dependent on multiple criteria relating to individual sites and proposals. Therefore, we have not provided a scoring hierarchy but based scoring on whether a proposal sits within a mitigating area or not. Scores of 0 have no potential for flood mitigation; scores of 5 have good potential for flood mitigation

Licence
Open Government Licence for Public Sector Information (OGL)

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Publication date
Type
Spatial data
Regions
Global
Approved
Yes
Published
Yes
Featured
No
Group
Land Nature Food

Information

Spatial extent
Projection system
EPSG:27700
Extension x0
165002.90625
Extension x1
355302.9375
Extension y0
165554.984375
Extension y1
395975.0

Features

Spatial Representation Type
Grid data is used to represent geographic data

Contact

Email
data@gov.wales
Organisation
Welsh Government
Department
land nature food

References

Link online
/layers/geonode:wom_wwnp_flood_mitigation_dissolve_score
Metadata page
/layers/geonode:wom_wwnp_flood_mitigation_dissolve_score/metadata_detail

OGC Geopackage
Woodland Opportunity Map - Flood Mitigation.gpkg
GeoJSON
Woodland Opportunity Map - Flood Mitigation.json
Excel
Woodland Opportunity Map - Flood Mitigation.excel
CSV
Woodland Opportunity Map - Flood Mitigation.csv
GML 3.1.1
Woodland Opportunity Map - Flood Mitigation.gml
GML 2.0
Woodland Opportunity Map - Flood Mitigation.gml
DXF
Woodland Opportunity Map - Flood Mitigation.dxf
Zipped Shapefile
Woodland Opportunity Map - Flood Mitigation.zip

OWS endpoints

WMS
WFS