Accessible urban waterside (inland)

This layer uses data to identify the location of the total waterside resource that is more likely to be publicly accessible because it is either in proximity to a OS path (within 10m) and/or is a waterbody adjacent to Accessible Green Infrastructure (within 1m). The Ordnance Survey (OS) OpenMap Local Surface Water (polygon and line) and Tidal Water (polygon) datasets were used to define the Blue Infrastructure (BI) to which access is measured. This includes rivers, streams, lakes, reservoirs, canals and tidal waters. OS Paths data identifies urban paths that are likely to be publicly accessible, but some may not be. Access to waterside created by proximity to roads, pavements, bridges (unless they are for PRoW) and public realm (such as boulevards, shopping centres etc) is not represented in the mapping. This may result in an under representation of accessible urban waterside. Because the assessment method uses a 10m buffer around urban paths to assess likelihood of accessibility, both sides of narrow water courses may be picked up as accessible even if only one side is aligned with the path. Thus, some waterside assigned "accessible" will in fact not be accessible. This will over-estimate likely accessible waterside. The data has been taken from Natural England's GI portal. More information regarding this data layer can be found here: https://designatedsites.naturalengland.org.uk/GreenInfrastructure/UserGuide/Section03.aspx