North of Tyne Local Nature Recovery Strategy: Areas for Potential Importance

Stage 5 mapping for the Local Nature Recovery Strategy (LNRS) adopted in March 2026. The data identifies Areas that could become of particular importance (ACIBs), also known as measures, for nature recovery in the North of Tyne region. It is published by Northumberland County Council and aggregates data from multiple sources including Ordnance Survey, Natural England, and the Environment Agency.

Use Cases

• Prioritizing habitat restoration areas based on identified ACIBs.
• Informing local planning decisions by mapping potential sites of ecological importance.
• Supporting biodiversity net gain assessments using the multi-source environmental data referenced in the description.

Strengths

• Data is explicitly tied to the adopted Local Nature Recovery Strategy from March 2026.
• Aggregates data from numerous authoritative sources listed in the detailed attribution.
• Published under the OGL-UK-3.0 license, facilitating reuse.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Freshness should be verified as the last update was 2026-05-28 16:33:11.846160.

Provenance

Source

Northumberland County Council, aggregating data from multiple UK government and environmental organizations.

Collection Method

Likely compiled from spatial analysis and multi-source data integration for the LNRS.

Time Range

Strategy adopted in March 2026; underlying source data spans various years up to 2026.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-28 16:33:11.846160

Geography

North of Tyne region, United Kingdom.