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What you need to do to manage your England Woodland Creation Offer (EWCO) agreement, meet the requirements and claim payments.
How to plan for and manage the risks associated with oak processionary moth (OPM) on oak trees on your land.
Information on how your personal data relating to financial transactions may be used in counter-fraud and error data matching exercises.
Guidance on applying for a licence to fell trees where a Tree Preservation Order (TPO) has been made.
A guide on restocking your woodlands, after removing spruce trees within the proactive spruce removal area in the south-east of England (in the Ips typographus Demarcation Area).
Supplementary guidance on how ash dieback may affect your grant schemes or felling licence application.
Supplementary guidance for land managers who are responsible for individual and small groups of ash trees that are likely to be infected by ash dieback.
Scheme rules for holders of agreements that started on 1 January 2020.
Find out about the movement restrictions of spruce trees originating within the Ips typographus demarcated area.
Find out what the lead facilitator and group applicants need to do for a group application in the tree health pilot (THP) scheme.
The Forestry Commission decision framework for determining when to convert woodland to open habitat, and when compensatory tree planting is required.
Find out how to apply for consent for change of use to convert woodland to open habitat.
Use this glossary to find clear definitions of terms and phrases used throughout this guidance.
Guidance on the Forestry Commission’s interpretation of trees and woodland for the purposes of felling licences and forestry environmental impact assessments.
Find forestry and tree nurseries in your local area and in Great Britain using the forestry nurseries directory and tree nurseries directory (agroforestry).
Guidance to help ensure cultivation for afforestation meets the minumum requirements of UKFS and ensures storage, sequestration and capture of CO2 is adequately addressed.
The benefits of woodland creation on farmland.
A woodland haven for people and wildlife.
Find out about the many benefits that trees can bring to your land and the financial and expert support you can get from the Forestry Commission.
How to request alternative felling permissions and/or restocking conditions on an approved felling licence from the Forestry Commission.
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