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Find out how creating woodland can benefit your business, and how you can diversify your income, offset emissions, and benefit your land, crops, and livestock.
This note will help inform the use of Historic Environment (HE) capital items and multiannual options available on woodland parcels in Higher Tier applications 2022 onwards (Agreement start date January 2023).
This Operations Note provides information about the steps Agreement Holders need to take where a Change in Management Control, including a Succession, will or is intended to take place.
Organisations can apply for a share of £150,000 (inc VAT) to develop innovative ways to reduce mortality of young forest trees in Scotland caused by Pine weevil damage.
This privacy notice applies to Forestry Commission enquiries through GOV.UK submission forms.
Scheme rules for holders of agreements that started before May 2018.
Supplementary guidance for if you're claiming annual payments as compensation for taking land out of agricultural production to create new woodland instead.
Read about the wide-reaching benefits that tree planting and woodland creation could bring to your farm.
Read about the UK Forestry Standard's 7 elements of sustainable forest management, and how you can apply them when creating new woodland.
Enhancing biodiversity, providing a recreation space for the local community and sequestering carbon.
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.
Legislation title: Guidance on the application of Plant Protection Products (PPPs) for phytosanitary treatment of oak processionary moth (OPM).
The Extraordinary Payment for Restocking in Exceptional Circumstances provides funding to help replace trees planted in 2024/25 that have been affected by hot and dry weather.
Overview of successful Woods into Management (WiM) Forestry Innovation Fund projects.
Invitation to Quote documentation for the Forestry Learning Mechanism scoping study.
This note explains the rules for regulated firewood entering Great Britain.
Common Farm Woods is a new woodland planted under the Countryside Stewardship scheme in a partnership between the Forestry Commission, Swindon Borough Council and the local community.
You must read and agree to these terms and conditions to apply for the local authority grant funding for an oak with oak processionary moth grant.
Planting 12,000 Trees For Future Generations
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