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This guide supports anyone who wants to plan, design and create new woodland in England.
A closed grant that provided funding to develop innovative methods to overcome barriers to domestic tree production.
Find out how the Woodland Creation Fast Track (WCFT) supports quicker decisions for England Woodland Creation Offer (EWCO) proposals in low sensitivity areas.
Find out how to protect wildlife and habitats and apply for wildlife licences so you can legally operate in woodlands and forests.
How to export certain types of regulated wood, wood products and bark from Great Britain to the world.
Find out about a specific tree pest or disease, including its lifecycle, the type of damage it does, and what to do about it.
Find information about the scheme, how companies can use woodland carbon units and how landowners can take part.
Find out what’s involved in woodland creation and how long the process takes, from scoping your landscape to planting your first tree.
This operations note is to be used to determine the appropriate works within woodland supplement 3: squirrel control and management.
Get information to help you plan, fund, plant and manage woodland in England, including resources on site preparation and tree protection to long-term management.
This leaflet has been produced to assist in the identification of injurious weeds as prescribed in the Weeds Act 1959.
Find out what you can do to prevent or help minimise the introduction, establishment, spread and impacts of tree pests and diseases in the UK.
Register so you can import or export regulated timber, wood products and bark, apply for export phytosanitary certificates, issue plant passports or apply ISPM15 marking.
Sign up to Forestry Commission newsletters for updates, news, information and guidance. Find out how to unsubscribe or update your subscriptions.
A list of grants and incentives available for woodland creation, maintenance, management and tree health from the Forestry Commission.
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 page gives a checklist of actions that applicants must complete before submitting a forestry Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) application.
Find out when and how to report a notifiable tree pest or disease in the UK, and information on services such as Tree Alert, TreeCheck and Observatree.
Find out how to complete a Woodland Condition Assessment (WCA) as part of a Countryside Stewardship Higher Tier Agreement or as a standalone capital item.
How to plan and access tracks and surfaced haulage roads in woodland – the minimum appropriate standards for construction, repair and maintenance.
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