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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 (but not always) 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 'suitability' attribute 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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Identification info
- Alternative title
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fws
- Metadata Language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Dataset Reference Date (Revision)
- 2024-08-21
- Identifier
- www.spatialhub.scot / sh_fws
- Maintenance and update frequency
- Quarterly
- Theme
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Land use
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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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Land use
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Area management/restriction/regulation zones and reporting units
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- Limitations on Public Access
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
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No limitations on public access
- Use constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- Open Government Licence
- Spatial representation type
- Vector
- Topic category
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- Planning cadastre
- Environment
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Temporal reference
Temporal extent
Temporal extent
Distribution Information
Data format
- Data format
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Name Version OGC:WMC
1.3.0
Transfer options
- Resource Locator
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Protocol Resource Locator Name WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
https://data.spatialhub.scot/dataset/forestry_and_woodland_strategy-is Forestry and Woodland Strategy - Scotland
WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
https://www.spatialdata.gov.scot:443/geonetwork/srv/api/records/50c53bbf-c1bf-4819-bd86-3c5adad65900/formatters/xml EDINA Digimap Service
WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2019/13/part/4/crossheading/forestry-and-woodland-strategy/enacted Planning (Scotland) Act 2019
Data quality info
- Quality Scope
- Dataset
- Statement
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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
- English
- Resource type
- Dataset
- Metadata Date
- 2024-08-21T14:40:39.962Z
- Metadata standard name
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UK GEMINI
- Metadata standard version
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2.3
Point of contact
- Organisation name
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The Improvement Service
- Position name
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Spatial Hub Custodian
- Voice
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01506 282012
- City
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Livingston
- Administrative area
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West Lothian
- Postal code
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EH54 6AX
- Country
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United Kingdom
- Electronic mail address
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spatialhub@improvementservice.org spatialhub@improvementservice.org.uk
- Role
- Point of contact