Office access and opening times

Contact details for the Forestry Commission, including area offices, operational delivery team and plant health forestry team.

Who should I contact?

Contact Forestry England

For information about visiting one of the nation’s 1,500 woods and forests, to find out about the way they are cared for, or to do business with Forestry England contact Forestry England.

Contact Forest Research

To talk to us about the Forestry Commission’s scientific services in support of sustainable forestry contact Forest Research.

Contact an area office, operational delivery team or woodland creation team

To find out about our grants, tree felling licences, regulations and managing private woods and forests, contact an area office or operational delivery team.

For initial questions about woodland creation, contact a woodland creation officer.

Contact plant health forestry

Our plant health forestry team supports the protection of England’s forests, woods and trees by helping to prevent pests and diseases from arriving on our shores through trade, finding them early if they do arrive and responding appropriately to help limit their potential harmful effects.

Operational delivery team

The operational delivery team delivers services to Forestry Commission customers for grants* and regulations**.

Our 3 hubs that cover England are:

  • Bucks Horn Oak: mostly covers the east of England
  • Bullers Hill: mostly covers the west of England, with dedications across the whole country
  • Bristol: covers all of England dealing with all new grants

*Grants include woodland creation grants (EWCO and WCPG), tree health grants, and grants detailed in each Operational Delivery Hub. 

**Regulations include felling licences, Environmental Impact Assessments, Habitat Regulations Assessments, alleged illegal felling, Woodland Management Plans, and Plant Health.

Bucks Horn Oak Hub

Bucks Horn Oak
Farnham
Surrey
GU10 4LS

Phone: 0300 067 4420
Email: adminhub.buckshornoak@forestrycommission.gov.uk

The Bucks Horn Oak Hub manages the English Woodland Grant Scheme (EWGS), Countryside Stewardship Woodland Capital Grant 2015 claim applications and Regulations in the following areas:

  • South East and London
  • East and East Midlands
  • Yorkshire and North East

It also manages the Farm Woodland Scheme (FWS) and Farm Woodland Premium Scheme (FWPS) in the following areas:

  • South East and London
  • East and East Midlands
  • North East

Bullers Hill Hub

Bullers Hill
Kennford
Exeter
EX6 7XR

Phone: 0300 067 4960
Email: adminhub.bullershill@forestrycommission.gov.uk

The Bullers Hill Hub manages the English Woodland Grant Scheme (EWGS), Countryside Stewardship Woodland Capital Grant 2015 claim applications and regulations in the following areas:

  • South West
  • North West and West Midlands

It also manages the Farm Woodland Scheme (FWS) and Farm Woodland Premium Scheme (FWPS) in the following areas:

  • South West
  • North West and West Midlands
  • York and North East

Bristol Hub

Forestry Commission
620 Bristol Business Park
Coldharbour Lane
Bristol
BS16 1EJ

Phone: 0300 067 4177

The Bristol Hub manages the following grants for all areas covering England:

Area offices

Your local woodland officer can advise you on managing your woodland, the support available and the regulatory processes involved.

If you know which area your woodland is in, you can find your woodland officer and the area office that covers your woodland using our Area and woodland officer boundaries map (PDF, 1.24 MB, 1 page).

You can contact your area office by email, please include your location (postcode or grid reference) and size of your woodland in your enquiry.

Our area offices are:

Yorkshire and North East

Forestry Commission
Foss House, Kings Pool
1-2 Peasholme Green
York
YO1 7PX

Phone: 0300 067 4900
Email: yne@forestrycommission.gov.uk

North West and West Midlands

Ghyll Mount
Gillan Way
Penrith 40 Business Park
Penrith
Cumbria
CA11 9BP

Phone: 0300 067 4029
Email: nwwm@forestrycommission.gov.uk

East and East Midlands

Forestry Commission
Santon Downham
Brandon
Suffolk
IP27 0TJ

Phone: 0300 067 4574
Email: eandem@forestrycommission.gov.uk

South East and London

Bucks Horn Oak
Farnham
Surrey
GU10 4LS

Phone: 0300 067 4420
Email: southeast.fce@forestrycommission.gov.uk

South West

Bullers Hill
Kennford
Exeter
EX6 7XR

Phone: 0300 067 4960
Email: southwest.fce@forestrycommission.gov.uk

Local woodland creation teams

Contact your local woodland creation team for help and initial questions about woodland creation and the right grant for developing your woodland plans.

When emailing the woodland creation team, include any specialist advice needed and the following details:

  • the location (postcode or grid reference)
  • the size of the proposed woodland creation area and your whole land holding size
  • your reason for woodland creation

Email your local woodland creation team at:

Plant health forestry

The plant health forestry team supports the protection of forests, woods and trees. We help prevent pests and diseases from arriving on our shores through trade, and respond appropriately to limit any potential harmful effects.

We carry out a range of activities including inspecting regulated wood, wood products and bark material entering, leaving, or moving around Great Britain. We monitor woodland health and respond to tree pest and disease outbreaks.

Find out how to identify and report suspected tree pest and disease issues. Please do not send sample material to our offices.

Import, export and movement of timber and wood

If you have a query about importing, exporting or movement of regulated wood, wood products or bark into and within Great Britain, including wood packaging material, dunnage and firewood, please email: plant.health@forestrycommission.gov.uk.

Find out about importing and exporting wood and timber products.

Plant health inspectors: points of entry

You must submit your completed Notice of Landing (NOL) form to the relevant inspector to tell us about your intention to land plant health controlled material at a specific point of entry.

See the full list of designated points of entry for plant health-controlled material.

Contacts for the main points of entry

Inverness, Peterhead, Aberdeen, Montrose, Grangemouth, Greenock, Inverkeithing, Leith, Methil, Perth, Dundee, Rosyth, and Edinburgh and Glasgow Airports - Speedy Group Services, mobile: 07773 014517, email:  contact@speedygroupservices.co.uk.

Liverpool, Birkenhead, Garston, Bromborough, Tyne, Sunderland, Seaham, Hartlepool, Tees, Teesport, and Manchester Airport - John Reid, mobile: 07961 437264, fax: 0845 051 8607, email: fcphne@gmail.com.

Hull, Goole, Immingham, Grimsby, New Holland, Barrowhaven, Flixborough, Gunness Wharf and Keadby - Paul Gibson, mobile: 07878 794279, email: t@vern.karoo.co.uk.

North Thames (Tilbury, Mistely, Harwich, Creaksea (Baltic Wharf), Brightlingsea and Stansted Airport) -  Speedy Group Services, phone: 07773 014517, email: contact@speedygroupservices.co.uk.

South Thames (Thamesport, Sheerness, Rochester, Chatham, Ridham, Dover, London Gateway, and Gatwick Airport) - Speedy Group Services, phone: 07773 014517, email: contact@speedygroupservices.co.uk.

Cardiff, Barry, Port Talbot, Swansea, Neath, Newport, Bristol (Avonmouth), Sharpness, Pembroke and Portbury - Sid Martin, mobile: 07816 215066, email: sidjmartin@googlemail.com.

Teignmouth, Plymouth, Par and Newquay - email: plant.health@forestrycommission.gov.uk.

Southampton, Poole, Shoreham, and London Heathrow Airport - Paul Radigan, Alistair Wilson, fax: 02380 775195, mobile: 07702 363541, email: forestry@cfs-uk.co.uk.

Felixstowe, Ipswich, Boston, Sutton Bridge, King’s Lynn and Wisbech - Speedy Group Services, mobile: 07773 014517, email: contact@speedygroupservices.co.uk.

East Midlands Airport - Plant Health Service, telephone: email: plant.health@forestrycommission.gov.uk.

Northern Ireland (Belfast, Warrenpoint and Lisahally)

Plant Health Inspection Branch, Forest Service
Department of Agriculture
Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA)
Room 1019, Dundonald House
Upper Newtownards Road
Ballymiscaw
Belfast BT4 3SB

Phone: 02890 524 91870
Email: planthealth@daera-ni.gov.uk.

Forestry Reproductive Materials (FRM)

Our forests and woodlands need to be well-adapted to the environment to grow well. The team also regulates the supply of forestry reproductive materials (FRM) to ensure that it can be traced back to the source of seed collection.

Find contact details and more information on Marketing forest reproductive material for forestry purposes.

Surveys, monitoring and biosecurity

If you want to know more about our surveying and monitoring of tree and woodland health in England, or for advice on good biosecurity practice, please contact:

Plant Health Forestry team
Forestry Commission
620 Bristol Business Park
Coldharbour Lane
Bristol
BS16 1EJ

Phone: 0300 067 4000
Email: tree_health@forestrycommission.gov.uk

Oak Processionary Moth (OPM)

The plant health forestry team also manages the Oak Processionary Moth (OPM) control programme. If you have questions about OPM contact:

Phone: 0300 067 4442
Email: opm@forestrycommission.gov.uk

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