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Find out how new woodland can enhance landscape character as well as a wide range of benefits to the woodland owner and society.
Apply for capitals grants to achieve additional benefits alongside your Higher Tier agreements.
This guidance sets out the need to contact historic environment organisations during the development of forestry projects and provides template emails that proposers can use.
A guide on restocking your woodlands, after removing spruce trees within the proactive spruce removal area in the south-east of England (in the Ips typographus Demarcation Area).
Supplementary guidance offering clarity on the principles to adopt when considering afforestation on or near priority habitats.
This guidance has been jointly produced by Defra, Forestry Commission and Natural England to help ensure that proposals for afforestation identify and avoid important breeding wader sites.
A guide to help identify tree damage by deer and grey squirrels.
Information about authorised processors in relation to the handling of material affected by Ips typographus or Phytophthora pluvialis.
Innovation fund supporting nurseries to increase and diversify domestic tree supply.
A fund for Upper Tier Local Authorities only – providing revenue support for the additional staff / consultants required to accelerate plans for tree and woodland planting.
Find out about the Woods into Management – Timber in Construction Innovation Fund and how you can compete for funding to help increase and facilitate the use of home-grown English wood and wood fibre in construction.
Find information and support on how to comply with the biosecure procurement requirement for suppliers of plants and trees.
First published during the 2022 to 2024 Sunak Conservative government
Find out how to protect wildlife and habitats and apply for wildlife licences so you can legally operate in woodlands and forests.
Diversification for long-term returns.
Find out how to import firewood, such as logs and kindling, into England, Scotland and Wales (Great Britain).
This document ensures a consistent approach to planning and assessing proposals for deforestation, and the wildfire risk resulting from those proposals.
How to choose Countryside Stewardship Capital Grant items if you’re part of the Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) pilot scheme.
Claim and manage legacy schemes – English Woodland Grant Scheme (EWGS), Farm Woodland Premium Scheme (FWPS), Farm Woodland Scheme (FWS) and Woodland Grant Scheme (WGS).
If you need to include a map with an application to the Forestry Commission, we will create an OS MasterMap® free of charge for you.
If you own or manage a farm, creating woodland can bring far-reaching benefits to your business. By planting the right tree in the right place you can diversify your income, offset emissions, and bring direct benefits to you…
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