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Purple Horizons - Woodland Nature Recovery Opportunities Map (England)

Summary

The woodland creation opportunity areas identified using this approach provide the best, most current, evidence base and can be used as a decision tool to help to direct woodland creation at the landscape scale, within the Purple Horizon Nature Recovery Project area, helping to make the landscape and its habitats, bigger, better and more joined up. Through the identification of these areas as those most suitable for woodland creation.

Identifying areas of woodland potential within this crucial section between Cannock Chase and Sutton Park will help support a mosaic of habitats to help nature recovery and species resilience whilst supporting climate change adaptations through carbon sequestration.

Use limitation statement

There are no public access constraints to this data. Use of this data is subject to the licence identified.

Attribution statement

© Natural England copyright. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right [year].

Use constraints

If you use this data you must acknowledge the source of the Information in your product by including or linking to any attribution or copyright statement specified below and, where possible, provide a link to the open government licence.

Technical information

Update frequency

notPlanned

Lineage

A number of information sources and data layers were used to produce this layer. The Primary, Associated and Restorable habitat polygons were produced based on habitat and species data held by EcoRecord and SER to complement NE priority habitat inventory data. Natural England have a 3rd party licence from EcoRecord and Staffordshire Ecological Record to use the data from their records, where they have used data to inform the final dataset. Woodland Creation Opportunity areas were identified based on a number of environmental criteria including historic land use, habitats, and soils. For a full description of the methodology see the following report: WOODLAND OPPORTUNITY MAPPING IN THE PURPLE HORIZONS NATURE RECOVERY PROJECT AREA Datasets Used: Habitat data - EcoRecord - TPL   Local Wildlife Site data - EcoRecord - TPL Species data - EcoRecord - TPL Local Wildlife Site data - SER - TPL Habitat Composite dataset - SER - TPL Species data - SER - TPL Landscape Character Typology - National Soils Resource Institute NatMap Vector - National Soils Resource Institute Working with Natural Processes (WWNP) - Environment Agency Source Protection Zones [Merged] - Environment Agency Sites of Special Scientific Interest - Natural England Habitat Networks (England) - Natural England Priority Habitat Inventories - Natural England Midlands Heartlands Heathland - Nature Recovery Opportunities Map - Natural England SSSI Impact Zones - Natural England BGS Geology 625K - British Geological Survey Ancient Woodland Inventory (draft) - Birmingham & the Black Country - Natural England Ancient Woodland Inventory (draft) - Staffordshire - Natural England OS MasterMap - Ordnance Survey Registered Battlefields - Historic England Scheduled Monuments - Historic England World Heritage Sites - Historic England Provisional Agricultural Land Classification (ALC) - Natural England

Spatial information

Geographic extent

  • Latitude from: 52.543853 to 52.687689
  • Longitude from: -2.011348 to -1.801528
Metadata information

Language

English

Metadata identifier

76b95fc4-f76b-4583-832d-7df3a97c9f25


Published by

Natural England


Dataset reference dates

Creation date

25 March 2025

Revision date

04 July 2025

Publication date

02 July 2025

Period

  • From: 25 March 2025

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Data and Supporting Information
Data services and download by area of interestLinkAction
PurpleHorizonsWoodland-NatureRecoveryOpportunityAreas_DownloadN/AOpen link
Natural England Open Data Geoportal dataset pageOpen link
ESRI REST Feature Service APIOpen link
PurpleHorizonsWoodland-NatureRecoveryOpportunityAreas_WMSCopy linkPreview
PurpleHorizonsWoodland-NatureRecoveryOpportunityAreas_WFSCopy linkN/A
OGC API - Features serviceCopy linkOpen link
Full downloads and supporting documentationFormatAction
Purple Horizons - Woodland Opportunity Mapping Report v3.0.pdfPDFDownload