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Find out how to assess whether your site might be suitable for woodland creation by carrying out species and vegetation surveys.
Supplementary guidance offering an overview of those priority open habitats most likely to need consideration during the planning and assessment of woodland creation proposals.
Read the rules on compatibility of England Woodland Creation Offer (EWCO) payments and whether land managers can access other sources of ecosystem services payments alongside EWCO payments.
Find out what the lead facilitator and group applicants need to do for a group application in the tree health pilot (THP) scheme.
Resources on where to find opportunities for working in forestry.
Scheme rules for holders of agreements that started before August 2019.
Claim and manage legacy schemes: English Woodland Grant Scheme (EWGS), Farm Woodland Premium Scheme (FWPS), Farm Woodland Scheme (FWS) and Woodland Grant Scheme (WGS).
This document ensures a consistent approach to planning and assessing proposals for deforestation, and the wildfire risk resulting from those proposals.
Supplementary guidance on the rules about changing ownership of land under a Forestry Commission grant scheme.
How the Forestry Commission will apply the 2024 rate uplifts to England Woodland Creation Offer (EWCO) applications and agreements.
A brief overview of England's Community Forests including the support they can offer for tree planting and woodland creation.
Read about the wide-reaching benefits that tree planting and woodland creation could bring to your farm.
Read how a bareroot tree and hedging nursery used funding from the Tree Production Capital Grant to create a sustainable farming business.
This framework sets out how we review schemes approved as ‘Category A evidence’ to check for compliance.
Natural colonisation is the process by which trees colonise new ground from existing local sources. This can happen through seed which has been dispersed by birds, mammals, wind or gravity, or by vegetative colonisation wher…
Read about the family farm financial case study, to help understand woodland creation financials on a 10 hectare site.
Find out about extraordinary payments for replanting trees and woodlands in exceptional circumstances after the hot and dry weather.
Find out how you can protect and manage trees and woodlands in urban areas.
This Operations Note sets out how Local Authorities can best evidence the need for tree felling without a felling licence, and defend against allegations of alleged illegal tree felling.
How to identify tree damage by deer and grey squirrels.
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