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Identification

Field Value

Title

Biodiversity Conservation Lands for the Mid North Coast Regional Strategy

Alternative title(s)

MNCRS_BioConLands

Abstract

The Biodiversity Conservation Lands dataset has been compiled for the Mid North Coast and interpreted as presenting planning constraints at three scales;

  • State: Areas identified as of state significance in recognition of a related state or federal conservation policy or program;
  • Regional : Areas identified as of regional significance generally in recognition of a related state policy or program or as providing buffers to state significant lands;
  • Local : Areas recognised through local conservation zoning and including all remnant vegetation.

Principles for deriving conservation constraints:

  1. A twenty five-year planning horizon was adopted for identifying Biodiversity Conservation Lands and opportunities.
  2. State, regional and local significance classes for conservation constraints were adopted and spatially delineated.
  3. Biodiversity features are presented as constraints with limited or no transferability. Irreplaceability of significant features is generally low and in situ conservation is generally required. The level of irreplaceability for each feature is noted in the metadata proformas.
  4. Biodiversity Conservation Lands will generally be identified across the landscape regardless of current tenure or zoning. Whilst back-zoning of existing development zones is not envisaged, protection of high conservation value features occurring in existing development zones will be encouraged.

The Biodiversity Conservation Lands is complete for all Local Government Areas along the coast from Tweed Heads to Gosford. This metadata statement deals with that portion of the data covering the Local Government Areas of Clarence Valley, Coffs Harbour, Bellingen, Nambucca, Kempsey, Hastings, Greater Taree and Great Lakes.

There are two BioConLands datasets for each Regional Strategy area - a simplified one containing only State, Regional and Local categories in the attribute table and a larger, more complex version with "detailed" information on the components that went into the datasets.

Note: Certain boundaries within these datasets, eg. NPWS and State Forest Estate, are only current to 2007.

Resource locator

Data Quality Statement

Name: Data Quality Statement

Protocol: WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download

Description:

Data quality statement for Biodiversity Conservation Lands for the Mid North Coast Regional Strategy

Function: download

Biodiversity Conservation Lands for the Mid North Coast Regional Strategy

Name: Biodiversity Conservation Lands for the Mid North Coast Regional Strategy

Protocol: WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download

Description:

Download Data Package

Function: download

Unique resource identifier

Code

9bbe9e7c-59f6-4557-9004-51cde6abd8ee

Presentation form

Document digital

Edition

01/02/2007

Dataset language

English

Metadata standard

Name

ISO 19115

Edition

2016

Dataset URI

https://datasets.seed.nsw.gov.au/dataset/9bbe9e7c-59f6-4557-9004-51cde6abd8ee

Purpose

The Biodiversity Conservation Lands is the primary source of OEH contribution to regional planning. Biodiversity forecasting tools have also been developed by OEH to support regional planning. They can contribute to ;increasing the value of existing mapped layers, comparing alternative development or conservation scenarios, and;assessing planning documents against biodiversity indicators

Status

Completed

Spatial representation

Type

vector

Geometric Object Type

complex

Spatial reference system

Code identifying the spatial reference system

4283

Equivalent scale

1:None

Additional information source

Regional Coastal Planning - Mid North Coast ; Metadata for Conservation Constraints Mapping 2007

Classification of spatial data and services

Field Value

Topic category

Keywords

Field Value

Keyword set

keyword value

ECOLOGY-Landscape

FORESTS-Natural

HERITAGE-Natural

HUMAN-ENVIRONMENT-Planning

LAND-Use

VEGETATION

Originating controlled vocabulary

Title

ANZLIC Search Words

Reference date

2008-05-16

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

151.8173

East bounding longitude

153.4935

North bounding latitude

-32.5702

South bounding latitude

-28.9943

NSW Place Name

Mid North Coast

Vertical extent information

Minimum value

-100

Maximum value

2228

Coordinate reference system

Authority code

urn:ogc:def:cs:EPSG::

Code identifying the coordinate reference system

5711

Temporal extent

Begin position

2007-01-02

End position

N/A

Dataset reference date

Resource maintenance

Maintenance and update frequency

Not planned

Contact info

Contact position

Data Broker

Organisation name

NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water

Telephone number

131555

Email address

data.broker@environment.nsw.gov.au

Web address

https://www.nsw.gov.au/departments-and-agencies/dcceew

Responsible party role

pointOfContact

Quality and validity

Field Value

Lineage

Methods:; Due to the complexity of overlaying datasets to create a single Biodiversity Conservation Lands layer, component datasets were simplified by dissolving all internal linework. Information on the type of constraint has been retained, however, details on attribution within constraints has not been included. ; Each attribute was prepared as a separate shapefile and these are listed, along with a brief description in Table 1. The layers were processed as follows; * an attribute was added to tag the shapes with the name of the constraint, ; * all internal linework was dissolved based on the attribute tag; * all component attributes were joined into a single data layer using ArcInfo Workstation (union and identity); * an attribute was added for significance, this was assigned to local, regional or state on the basis of the highest level of significance in a polygon. For example, a polygon with significance for both State and Regional features would carry an overall tag for State significance (the highest significance). ; * In cases where State and Regional significance has been given to an area of the landscape which is a cleared habitat corridor (ie a Habitat Corridor with no other significance), this is denoted in the attribute field as 'State - Cleared Corridor' or 'Regional - Cleared Corridor'.; * Areas of NPWS estate and areas of Forests NSW estate are displayed explicitly. ; ; Scale and limitations of the use of conservation constraints:; Limited time and resources were available for the compilation of the Biodiversity Conservation Lands dataset. In addition, there is a recognition that for certain features, particularly vegetation communities, the baseline dataset used was designed for regional scale significance assessments. While these data may provide an indication of relative biodiversity significance at the local level, users should be aware that the data have limitations including those of scale (mainly 1:25,000 aerial photography) and age (extant updated to 2002).

Constraints related to access and use

Field Value

Limitations on public access

Data Quality

Field Value

Scope

dataset

DQ Completeness Commission

Effective date

2001-01-01

DQ Completeness Omission

Effective date

2001-01-01

Explanation

Geographic extent: ; Coverage includes Upper North East (UNE) and Lower North East (LNE) NSW RFA regions.; There is complete coverage of the study area for the Local Government Areas of Clarence Valley, Coffs Harbour, Bellingen, Nambucca, Kempsey, Hastings, Greater Taree and Great Lakes.; The layer does not include areas of State Forests where the timber resource is required under a current regional forest agreement.; ; Spot5 satellite imagery taken in March 2005 and air photography taken in 1998 used will not reflect the affects of logging and clearing since that time. Key conservation features are generally well represented within these proposals. None of the proposals have been subject to field assessment or validation.

DQ Conceptual Consistency

Effective date

1900-01-01

DQ Topological Consistency

Effective date

1900-01-01

DQ Absolute External Positional Accuracy

Effective date

1900-01-01

Explanation

The positional accuracy is fairly variable due to the varied sources of data. Air photos are at a scale of 1:25 000 and Spot5 satellite at 1:100 000.

DQ Non Quantitative Attribute Correctness

Effective date

1900-01-01

Responsible organisations

Field Value

Responsible party

Contact position

Data Broker

Organisation name

NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water

Telephone number

131555

Email address

data.broker@environment.nsw.gov.au

Web address

https://www.nsw.gov.au/departments-and-agencies/dcceew

Responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata on metadata

Field Value

Metadata point of contact

Contact position

Data Broker

Organisation name

NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water

Telephone number

131555

Email address

data.broker@environment.nsw.gov.au

Web address

https://www.nsw.gov.au/departments-and-agencies/dcceew

Responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata date

2024-02-26T13:17:27.164325

Metadata language