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Find out how you can protect and manage trees and woodlands in urban areas.
Information about Phytophthora pluvialis, including how to report sightings.
How to deal with threats - like grey squirrels and rhododendron - to protect native species and habitats in woodlands.
This guidance sets out the need to contact historic environment organisations during the development of forestry projects and provides template emails that proposers can use.
Find out how continuous cover forestry benefits your woodland.
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.
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.
Find out about the benefits that tree planting and woodland creation bring to water management and water quality.
This document provides guidance on the most appropriate forms of tree protection for use in woodland creation scenarios.
Find out how to assess whether your site might be suitable for woodland creation by carrying out species and vegetation surveys.
Find out how to restock trees on a site where they have been felled due to pests or disease.
Read the rules on whether land managers can access other sources of ecosystem services payments alongside England Woodland Creation Offer (EWCO) payments.
How to request alternative felling permissions and/or restocking conditions on an approved felling licence from the Forestry Commission.
Resources on where to find opportunities for working in forestry.
You must read and agree to the terms and conditions set out in this document to apply for the tree health pilot scheme.
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…
Find out about pests and diseases that could be affecting your trees.
A closed grant for creating native woodland or restoring plantations on ancient woodland sites near to the HS2 route.
Find information and support on how to comply with the biosecure procurement requirement for suppliers of plants and trees.
First published during the 2022 to 2024 Sunak Conservative government
Find out what’s involved in woodland creation and how long the process takes, from scoping your landscape to planting your first tree.
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