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How to use the optional Countryside Stewardship monitoring report and photographic monitoring report templates.
Find insight and advice about timber production from other organisations.
How the Forestry Commission will apply the 2024 rate uplifts to England Woodland Creation Offer (EWCO) applications and agreements.
This framework sets out how we review schemes approved as ‘Category A evidence’ to check for compliance.
Information on Forestry Commission datasets and how to access them.
Access to forests and woodland improves physical and mental health. It creates a better understanding of nature, and why we need to protect and nurture it.
How to get Natural England’s consent for works on or near a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) when you apply for a felling licence or woodland grant agreement.
Find out how to assess whether your site might be suitable for woodland creation by carrying out species and vegetation surveys.
Legislation title: Guidance on the application of Plant Protection Products (PPPs) for phytosanitary treatment of oak processionary moth (OPM).
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.
How woodland creation can help you generate income.
If you received an Urban Tree Challenge Fund (UTCF) grant between 2019 to 2024, find out how to manage your existing UTCF agreement.
These example landscape character appraisals will help you develop your own woodland creation design plan.
Find out how to fell diseased trees to slow the spread of certain tree pests and diseases and to protect the wider treescape – what to do if you get a statutory plant health notice (SPHN) asking you to fell larch, sweet ches…
A closed grant for creating native woodland or restoring plantations on ancient woodland sites near to the HS2 route.
Read this guidance if your Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) contains ash trees.
Guidance on restocking for owners and managers of woodland containing ash. An overview of considerations and signposts to appropriate sources of information.
The Forestry Commission decision framework for determining when to convert woodland to open habitat, and when compensatory tree planting is required.
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.
Read the latest Plant Health News from the Forestry Commission. Sign up to the plant health newsletter to receive up-to-date forestry trade news.
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