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Appeal against a grant decision, refusal of a felling licence, restocking and enforcement notices, or an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) enforcement notice.
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 new woodland can enhance landscape character as well as provide benefits to woodland owners and society.
Find out how to restock trees on a site where they have been felled due to pests or disease.
Find out the benefits of planting trees, including funding and support available to create woodland in England.
A brief overview of the grants, incentives and other support that are available for woodland creation as part of the England Woodland Creation Partnerships.
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.
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.
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.
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.
How to get Natural England’s consent for works on or near a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) when you apply for a felling licence or woodland grant agreement.
Information on Forestry Commission datasets and how to access them.
Find out the minimum standards for a deer and mammal risk assessment for woodland creation and how to carry out the survey.
Guidance on the Forestry Commission’s interpretation of trees and woodland for the purposes of felling licences and forestry environmental impact assessments.
Supplementary guidance on the treatment of larch species when processing felling applications through the Forestry Commission.
These example landscape character appraisals will help you develop your own woodland creation design plan.
Find out about priority habitats and species, the value of ancient and native woodland and when it's appropriate to remove trees to restore open habitats.
A closed grant for creating native woodland or restoring plantations on ancient woodland sites near to the HS2 route.
Find out how to improve permanent access and infrastructure at woodlands you manage.
Read about the UK Forestry Standard's 7 elements of sustainable forest management, and how you can apply them when creating new woodland.
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