Tranquillity & Place Wales Sound Environment Part 1 2023
The nationally consistent terrestrial Tranquillity & Place resource identifies the strategic and local resource in remote, rural, peri-urban and urban areas for use as an evidence base to inform policy intent, practice and provision for well-being benefits. There are 6 themes.
Tranquillity is associated with the degree to which places and ecosystems deliver a state of quiet, calm, peace and well-being. This can be described as a relative abundance, perception or experience of nature, natural landscapes and features and/or a relative freedom from unwanted visual disturbance, signs of human influence and artificial noise.
Tranquillity & Place Sound Environment Part I delivers Theme 4, mapping sound environments where natural sounds are more prominent than noise and are appropriate to context. It includes sounds other than road and railway noise.
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Identification
- Identifier
- NRW_DS125531
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- T4P1_RURAL_COMBINED.lyr
- T4P1_URBAN_COMBINED.lyr
- Metadata Language
- English
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The rural analysis (50m resolution) covers the entirety of Wales, including those areas covered by the urban analysis, to allow for consistent comparisons between different geographies. The urban analysis (10m resolution) is in addition to this, but only covers the urban areas defined using the extent of the study areas mapped in the Urban Tree Cover data.
Scores use a scale of 0 – 10, sounds that contribute to tranquillity getting a higher score, decreasing with distance from the source. Sounds that detract from tranquillity were given a lower score, increasing with distance from the source. It is important that the Part I results are taken as an indicative whole rather than in isolation. The forthcoming addition of part 2 data on road and rail will be an important addition.
- Additional Information
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Green C, Manson D, Chamberlain K, Grace I 2023. Tranquillity and Place Sound Environment (Part 1). NRW Report No: 660, 100pp, NRW
- Dataset Reference Date (Publication)
- 2025-04-04
Extent
Extent
- Geographic Extent
- Wales (WLS)
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Distribution
Distribution
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Documents [A] Digital versions of the contract report: Microsoft Word document(s); and an equivalent Adobe Portable Document Format version. ESRI Feature Class
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- Resource Locator
- View and Download ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )
Quality
Data quality
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- Dataset
- Conformity
- Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services
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This dataset has not been assessed for conformance to the referenced INSPIRE regulation.
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The rural analysis (50m resolution) covers the entirety of Wales, including those areas covered by the urban analysis, to allow for consistent comparisons between different geographies. The urban analysis (10m resolution) is in addition to this, but only covers the urban areas defined using the extent of the study areas mapped in the Urban Tree Cover data.
Scores use a scale of 0 – 10, sounds that contribute to tranquillity getting a higher score, decreasing with distance from the source. Sounds that detract from tranquillity were given a lower score, increasing with distance from the source. It is important that the Part I results are taken as an indicative whole rather than in isolation. The forthcoming addition of part 2 data on road and rail will be an important addition.
Keywords
Keywords
- Type
- Theme
Citation
- Date (Publication)
- 2008-06-01
Keywords
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NRW Thesaurus
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- tranquil areas
- LANDSCAPE
- Sound
- Tranquillity
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- Theme
Citation
- Date (Publication)
- 2025-01-08
Spatial Reference System
Content
Content Information
NRW Profile
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Constraints
Constraints
Limitations on Public Access and Use
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- no limitations
Access Constraints Text
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There are no access restrictions on this data. NRW may release, publish or disseminate it freely.
Use Constraints
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© CNC/NRW All rights Reserved. Contains Ordnance Survey Data. Ordnance Survey Licence number AC0000849444 and Derived in Part from BGS Digital Data under Licence Number 2013/062. British Geological Society. Crown Copyright and Database Right Data may be re-used under the terms of the Open Government Licence providing it is done so, acknowledging both the source and copyright of the owners. It is the recipient's responsibility to ensure the data is fit for the intended purpose.
Attribution Statement
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Contains Natural Resources Wales information © Natural Resources Wales and Database Right. All rights Reserved. Contains Ordnance Survey Data. Ordnance Survey Licence number AC0000849444. Crown Copyright and Database Right. British Geological Society Digital Data under Licence Number 2013/062. British Geological Society
Licence
- Other constraints
- Open Government Licence
Metadata
Metadata
- File Identifier
- 4f4c4942-4343-5764-6473-313235353331 XML
- Metadata Language
- English
- Resource type
- Dataset
- Metadata Date
- 2025-04-07T09:58:40.857Z
- Metadata Standard Name
- NRW
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1.0