We use some essential cookies to make this website work.
We’d like to set additional cookies to understand how you use GOV.UK, remember your settings and improve government services.
We also use cookies set by other sites to help us deliver content from their services.
You have accepted additional cookies. You can change your cookie settings at any time.
You have rejected additional cookies. You can change your cookie settings at any time.
Departments, agencies and public bodies
News stories, speeches, letters and notices
Detailed guidance, regulations and rules
Reports, analysis and official statistics
Consultations and strategy
Data, Freedom of Information releases and corporate reports
How to market forest reproductive material (FRM) for forestry purposes, including regulations, registration, master certificates and licences.
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.
This guidance provides definitions for felling and restocking terms used by the Forestry Commission.
Read how a bareroot tree and hedging nursery used funding from the Tree Production Capital Grant to create a sustainable farming business.
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.
This guide gives an overview of plant health legislation for forestry in England for Forestry Commission staff and contract inspectors working in the sector.
Scheme rules for holders of agreements that started on 1 January 2021
Claim and manage legacy schemes: English Woodland Grant Scheme (EWGS), Farm Woodland Premium Scheme (FWPS), Farm Woodland Scheme (FWS) and Woodland Grant Scheme (WGS).
Find nurseries in your local area and in Great Britain using the forestry nursery directory. It includes contact information, size, and a short description.
Find out about pests and diseases that could be affecting your trees.
Information on training courses and guidance on choosing the right path for a career in forestry.
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.
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…
Forestry Commission guidance on design techniques, processes and how to document forest management plans.
Information about Phytophthora pluvialis, including how to report sightings.
Read the Forestry Commission's guides on how best to manage dog walkers on your woodland. This includes managing dog fouling and protecting wildlife from dogs.
Find out how sustainably managed woodlands can deliver benefits to the environment, people and the economy.
How to plan for and manage the risks associated with oak processionary moth (OPM) on oak trees on your land.
An guide produced by Forestry Commission, Forest Research and Natural England to provide a decision framework for landowners on where to establish trees and where to restore peat.
Find out about grants and other funding support for agroforestry on your farmland.
Don’t include personal or financial information like your National Insurance number or credit card details.
To help us improve GOV.UK, we’d like to know more about your visit today. Please fill in this survey (opens in a new tab and requires JavaScript).