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FGS Target Area - Woodlands for Riparian Benefits

This dataset identifies the target areas where a higher Forestry Grant Scheme payment rate is available for creation of new riparian woodlands.


The Woodlands for Riparian Benefits target area dataset identifies locations where riparian woodland creation can provide multiple benefits, which include: reducing river temperatures for Wild Salmon populations; slowing flows to support flood risk management, improving water body status under River Basin Management Plans (e.g. diffuse pollution, ecology, chemistry and physical condition), and improving biodiversity.


In order to qualify for the higher Forestry Grant Scheme payment rate the woodland must support river management, water quality, flood mitigation and the Wild Salmon Strategy and these benefits must be clearly identified. The higher payment rates will apply to the following woodland creation options: Native Scots Pine, Native Upland Birch, Native Broadleaves and Native Low-density Broadleaves.


The grant rate will be dependent on the extent to which an application is within the target area. For example, if 50 percent or more of each eligible option area within your application is within the target area, then the whole eligible option area will receive the higher payment rate. If less than 50 percent of each eligible option area within your application is within the target area, then the higher payment rate will not be applied. Please note that within any of the target areas the capital items such as fences and gates will remain at the standard payment rates.


The target area was created by buffering sections of river identified by James Hutton Institute's RIVERTOOL (Riparian Vegetation Ecosystem Services-based Ranking Tool) as providing most benefit from riparian planting. The target area is a simple buffer and does not exclude unplantable areas such as the river itself, roads, or existing woodland. Approximately 25% of the overall target area is covered by these unplantable features.

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Identification info

Alternative title

FGS Target Woodlands for Riparian Benefits

Metadata Language
English
Character set
UTF8
Dataset Reference Date (Creation)
2023-07-12
Dataset Reference Date (Revision)
2023-07-12
Identifier
S_FGS_TARGET_AREA_RIPARIAN_BENEFITS
Presentation form
Digital map
Publisher
  Scottish Forestry - GIS ( Head of Geo-Information Services )
Saughton House, Broomhouse Drive , Edinburgh , City of Edinburgh , EH11 3XD , United Kingdom
Owner
  Scottish Forestry - Operational Delivery ( Head of Operational Delivery )
Saughton House, Broomhouse Drive , Edinburgh , City of Edinburgh , EH11 3XD , United Kingdom
Maintenance and update frequency
Not planned
Keywords
  • Forest Management

  • Grant Schemes

  • Planning

  • Environment

  • Landscape

  • Woodland

  • FGS

  • Forestry

  • Afforestation

  • Riparian

  • River

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

  • Land use

Limitations on Public Access
Other restrictions
Other constraints

No limitations on public access

Use constraints
License
Other constraints

Please ensure that the following acknowledgement is displayed on any hard copy: Data provided by Scottish Forestry [year].

Other constraints
Open Government Licence
Spatial representation type
Vector
Denominator
10000
Topic category
  • Farming
  • Biota
  • Economy
  • Environment
Extent
GB-SCT

ISO3166-2 2007-12-13

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Temporal extent
 
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Reference system identifier
EPSG / OSGB 1936 / British National Grid (EPSG:27700) / 7.9

Distribution Information

Data format

Data format
Name Version

ESRI Shapefile

1.0

 

Transfer options

Resource Locator
Protocol Resource Locator Name

WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link

https://open-data-scotts.coishforestry.hub.arcgim/

Scottish Forestry Open Data

WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link

https://www.ruralpayments.org/topics/all-schemes/forestry-grant-scheme/woodland-creation/

FGS Option Guidance Document

 
 

Data quality info

Quality Scope
Dataset
Conformity
Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services
Explanation
Degree
false
Statement

These target areas were created by Scottish Forestry, based on areas identified using a tool developed by James Hutton Institute (JHI) to score the level of benefits provided by riparian planting. The JHI tool is called RIVERTOOL (Riparian Vegetation Ecosystem Services-based Ranking Tool) and was developed by Alessandro Gimona, Marie Castellazzi, Bethany Wilkins, and Andrea Baggio Compagnucci. You can find more information at https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/f49964c9d7344ac4a6056cbde3122946


Two outputs from the tool were used. First, in each region, the 25% of the rivers with the highest score when all criteria were considered and equally weighted was taken. Then the top 25% for only river shading was taken and merged with the first output. These combined areas were used as the basis of the target area.


Where possible, the target area is based on buffering the OS Open Rivers network, rather than the 100m gridded tool output. The tool output areas were buffered by 101m, then OS Open Rivers were clipped to this buffer area. These river lines were then buffered by 50m plus half the river width. OS Open Rivers does not include river widths, so these were calculated for each feature as the average of widths of OS MasterMap Water Network features along the given OS Open Rivers feature.


Some of the rivers included in the JHI tool output were not included in the OS Open Rivers dataset. These areas were identified, and the gridded tool output itself was used, smoothed using positive and negative buffers. This area was then merged with the buffered rivers to create the final target area.


Dataset Attributes:


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Metadata

File identifier
0c7fa87e-00cc-4f69-9fca-ea8c00fda240 XML
Metadata Language
English
Character set
UTF8
Resource type
Dataset
Metadata Date
2023-07-11T16:20:38
Metadata standard name
UK GEMINI
Metadata standard version

2.3

Point of contact

Individual name

GIS

Organisation name

Scottish Forestry

Position name

Head of Geo-Information Services

Delivery point

Saughton House, Broomhouse Drive

City

Edinburgh

Administrative area

City of Edinburgh

Postal code

EH11 3XD

Country

United Kingdom

Electronic mail address

geoinformationservices@forestry.gov geoinformationservices@forestry.gov.scot

Role
Point of contact
Point of contact
  Scottish Forestry - GIS ( Head of Geo-Information Services )
Saughton House, Broomhouse Drive , Edinburgh , City of Edinburgh , EH11 3XD , United Kingdom
 
 
 

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Keywords

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
Land use

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