Forestry and Woodland Strategies - Scotland
These strategies are a requirement that has now been added into the Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act. http://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2019/13/part/4/crossheading/forestry-and-woodland-strategy/enacted
Most councils already have a FWS and these are normally accompanied by spatial data. Some of the strategies are produced jointly across Councils, e.g. Stirling & Clackmannanshire, Edinburgh & Lothians, Glasgow Clyde Valley.
Generally, the FWS datasets contain similar attribution which identifies the FWS Classification, or the potential areas for woodland expansion. The attribution is usually along the lines of: Preferred, Potential, Sensitive, Unsuitable.
Some of the councils have produced a few layers of data for their FWS which might apply specifically to woodland planting types, e.g. a separate FWS layer for native woodlands or for productive woodlands.
Please note the data has been created using data of different scales (regional/local) and has been created as a high level assessment tool. The data should be viewed NO larger than 1:25000. Identification as a preferred area does not imply automatic approval of woodland planting proposals. Applications will be assessed based on site conditions. To be used in conjunction with the published supplementary guidance.
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Simple
- Alternate title
- fws
- Date ( Revision )
- 2020-03-16
- Identifier
- www.spatialhub.scot / sh_fws
Point of contact
- Maintenance and update frequency
- quarterly Quarterly
- Keywords ( Theme )
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- Land use
- GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 ( Theme )
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- Land use , Area management/restriction/regulation zones and reporting units
- Access constraints
- otherRestrictions Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- Limitations on public access
- Use limitation
- Use of the data is available to any organisation that is a member of the OSMA (One Scotland Mapping Agreement) or any UK academic institution via Edina's subscription Digimap service. It is not currently commercially available.
- Metadata language
- eng English
- Topic category
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- Planning cadastre
- Environment
- Reference system identifier
- urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4258
- Reference system identifier
- EPSG / OSGB 1936 / British National Grid (EPSG:27700) / 7.9
- Reference system identifier
- EPSG / ETRS89 (EPSG:4258) / 7.9
- Reference system identifier
- EPSG / WGS 84 / Pseudo-Mercator (EPSG:3857) / 7.9
- Distribution format
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- OGC:WMC (1.3.0 )
- OnLine resource
- http://www.spatialhub.scot/get-data/
- OnLine resource
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Spatial Hub View Service (WMS)
Spatial Hub View Service (WMS)
- OnLine resource
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Spatial Hub Download Service (WFS)
Spatial Hub Download Service (WFS)
- Hierarchy level
- dataset Dataset
- Statement
- This dataset was amalgamated, optimised and published by the Spatial hub. For more information visit www.spatialhub.scot.
Metadata
- File identifier
- 6efe2227-2344-4c8d-8d6f-fd67580489ad XML
- Metadata language
- eng English
- Hierarchy level
- dataset Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2020-03-16
- Metadata standard name
- ISO 19115:2003/19139
- Metadata standard version
- 1.0
Metadata catalogue