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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Photograph of the Resilience Garden showing silo, trees and other plants

Press release

Enormous trees reinforce climate change message at Chelsea

Garden on RHS showground highlights diversity and biosecurity as paramount to our future

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

Collection

Tree pests and diseases

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

Timber stack in a woodland

Press release

Need to fell some trees? Branch out and try Felling Licence Online

New system makes it easier to apply for and track your tree felling licence wherever you are.

Latest from the Forestry Commission

  1. Alleged illegal tree felling investigation report - Sheffield’s Streets Ahead programme
    • Decision
  2. Highway tree management: operations note 51
    • Guidance
  3. eAlert: 17 July 2019 - Urban Tree Challenge Fund application deadline
    • Correspondence

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What the Forestry Commission does

The Forestry Commission increases the value of woodlands to society and the environment.

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

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Services

  1. Permanent grassland assessment form: Countryside Stewardship
  2. Wood packaging goods for import and export
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Guidance and regulation

  1. Mid Tier: Countryside Stewardship
    • Guidance
  2. RLE1 form and guidance
    • Statutory guidance
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News and communications

  1. eAlert: 17 July 2019 - Urban Tree Challenge Fund application deadline
    • Correspondence
  2. Tighter restrictions on oak tree imports come into force
    • Press release
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Research and statistics

  1. Public Opinion of Forestry 2019: Wales
    • Official statistics
  2. Public Opinion of Forestry 2019: UK and England
    • Official statistics
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Policy papers and consultations

  1. Provenance choice of native trees under climate change in England - Policy Advice Note
    • Policy paper
  2. Tree and woodlands: introducing measures for felling street trees
    • Closed consultation
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Transparency and freedom of information releases

  1. Executive Board meeting, 4 February 2019, Bristol
    • Corporate report
  2. Forestry Commission spend over £25,000 (2019)
    • Transparency
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Our management

Sir Harry Studholme
Forestry Commission Chair
George McRobbie
Forestry Commissioner
Dr Mary Barkham
Forestry Commissioner
Julia Grant
Forestry Commissioner
Liz Philip
Forestry Commissioner
Peter Latham
Forestry Commissioner
Jennie Price
Forestry Commissioner
Ian Gambles
Chief Executive Officer Forestry Commission

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

Make an FOI request

  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 – Commissioners’ 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. Procurement at Forestry Commission
  2. Working for Forestry Commission
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