Forestry Commission

  1. Countryside Stewardship: Woodland Support
  2. Tree felling: overview
  3. Felling Licences
  4. Create woodland: overview
  5. Create a woodland management plan
  6. Report suspected illegal tree felling
  7. Tree pests and diseases
  8. Importing and exporting wood and timber products
  9. eAlerts

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Timber stack in woodland

Detailed guide

Apply online for a felling licence

Use this guide to apply for a licence to fell growing trees using our Felling Licence Online service

Young trees in tree tubes in a woodland setting.

Detailed guide

Create woodland: overview

Find information and support on woodland creation in England, including funding to create woodland, legal requirements and best practice for sustainability.

Wooded landscape

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Tree pests and diseases

Identify, report, prevent and minimise the introduction, spread and impacts of tree pests and diseases in the UK.

Latest from the Forestry Commission

  1. Movement restrictions introduced to protect UK against tree pest
    • Press release
  2. Larger eight-toothed European spruce bark beetle (Ips typographus)
    • Detailed guide
  3. eAlert: 10 January 2019 - Apply for a woodland creation grant now!
    • Correspondence

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What the Forestry Commission does

The Forestry Commission is the government department responsible for protecting, expanding and promoting the sustainable management of woodlands.

Forestry Commission is a non-ministerial department, supported by 2 agencies and public bodies.

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Announcements

  1. Movement restrictions introduced to protect UK against tree pest
    • Press release
  2. eAlert: 10 January 2019 - Apply for a woodland creation grant now!
    • Correspondence
  3. See all announcements

Consultations

  1. Tree and woodlands: introducing measures for felling street trees
    • Open consultation
  2. Official Statistics: proposed changes to Defra statistics
    • Consultation outcome
  3. See all consultations

Publications

  1. Larger eight-toothed European spruce bark beetle (Ips typographus)
    • Detailed guide
  2. Register of Interests - Forestry Commissioners
    • Transparency
  3. See all publications

Statistics

  1. European Forest Accounts: UK 2016 data
    • Official statistics
  2. Timber price indices: data to September 2018
    • National statistics
  3. See all statistics

Our management

Sir Harry Studholme
Forestry Commission Chair
Ian Gambles
Forestry Commissioner
Jo O'Hara
Forestry Commissioner for Scotland
Amanda Bryan
Forestry Commissioner for Scotland
George McRobbie
Forestry Commissioner for Scotland
Dr Mary Barkham
Forestry Commissioner
Julia Grant
Forestry Commissioner

Contact Forestry Commission

Forestry Commission

620 Bristol Business Park
Coldharbour Lane
Bristol
BS16 1EJ
United Kingdom

Email

nationalenquiries@forestrycommission.gov.uk

Telephone

0300 067 4000

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  1. Read about the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act and how to make a request.
  2. Check our previous releases to see if we’ve already answered your question.
  3. Make a new request by contacting us using the details below.

FOI Requests

Information Rights - Director’s Office
Forestry Commission
620 Bristol Business Park
Coldharbour Lane
Bristol
BS16 1EJ
United Kingdom

Email

informationrights@forestrycommission.gov.uk

Telephone

0300 067 4000

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  1. Working for Forestry Commission
  2. Procurement at Forestry Commission
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