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  • Apply for grants and other funding to increase productivity, manage your land to benefit the environment and support your agricultural business.

  • What farmers, foresters and land managers need to know and do before applying for a Countryside Stewardship grant, and how to manage a grant agreement.

  • Get support to create woodland using the England Woodland Creation Offer (EWCO).

  • The Forestry Commission controls tree felling by issuing felling licences.

  • Woodlands may be eligible for certain tax reliefs and exemptions, depending on the type of woodland and its purpose.

  • How to assess a planning application when there are ancient woodland, ancient trees or veteran trees on or near a proposed development site.

  • Read the guidance to help you make your claim for payment using the Rural Payments service or a claim form.

  • Find woodland agreements, felling licences and other designations or features on any chosen area of land in England.

  • What you must do when you keep livestock or manage land.

  • Guidance on applying for a licence to fell growing trees using our Felling Licence Online service.

  • This booklet tells you what you need to know about getting permission to fell any trees for yourself or for someone else.

  • This guidance sets out the UK governments' approach to sustainable forestry, including standards and requirements, regulations and monitoring, and reporting.

  • Check the land details you have registered on the Rural Payments service.

  • Find out what grants are available under the tree health pilot (THP) scheme, if you’re eligible and how to apply.

  • Find out what's involved in creating a plan, giving you a structured way to organise the management of woodland.

  • Find out about the Forestry Commission’s Professional Forester Apprenticeship programme that offers an exciting career pathway into the forestry sector.

  • Information about the eight-toothed spruce bark beetle, including how to report sightings.

  • The Forestry and Arboriculture Training Fund covers training costs for short, practical forestry and arboriculture courses.

  • Find out how to apply for the Woodland Creation Planning Grant to support your development of a proposal to create woodland.

  • Use the public registers to find details on proposed forestry work and on decisions that the Forestry Commission has made to approve or reject proposals.