Priority Places For England Original

<p>Priority Places for England </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>There is now a new version of this dataset available, please see: Priority Places for England: 2016. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>The data was used as a targeting dataset for the English Woodland Grant Scheme Woodland Creation Grant from 2012/13. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>The Forestry Commission identified Priority Places for England (PPE) areas based on data that includes populations, deprivation indices and existing public access provision. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Methodology summary: </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>- Census Output Areas with usual resident population (minus prison and MOD population) were identified. </p><p></p><p>- Those Census Output Areas within urban areas (&gt;10,000 population) that are also within the 40% most deprived areas in England were identified. </p><p></p><p>- These areas were buffered by 4km to create the PPE boundaries in this dataset. </p><p></p><p>- Further details can be requested from the data custodian. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Woodland Creation Grant schemes that fell within the boundaries of the PPE data were potentially eligible for an Additional Contribution of grant aid. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Attributes: </p><p></p><p></p><p>Descriptr = Description of feature <br /></p>