Ipswich Wildlife Audit: 400-Meter Protected Area Buffer Zones

A 400-meter buffer zone surrounds designated Core Areas of wildlife importance in Ipswich Borough. The data is published by the Government Digital Service under a CC-BY-4.0 license and is available as a WMS service. The dataset's purpose is to protect these areas from adverse impacts.

Use Cases

• Conducting environmental impact assessments for proposed developments based on the proximity to protected wildlife zones.
• Planning urban green infrastructure and corridors based on the spatial relationship between core areas and their buffers.
• Modeling potential habitat fragmentation or disturbance based on the 400-meter protective boundary.

Strengths

• Data is explicitly designed for a regulatory purpose: protecting designated wildlife areas from adverse impacts.
• Published under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license, facilitating reuse and integration.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Provenance

Source

Government Digital Service

Collection Method

Likely derived from official wildlife audit and spatial planning data.

Time Range

unknown

Freshness

unknown

Geography

Ipswich Borough, United Kingdom