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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.
How to use the optional Countryside Stewardship monitoring report and photographic monitoring report templates.
The eight-toothed spruce bark beetle (Ips typographus) is a serious pest of spruce. There are exemptions and restrictions for planting spruce in the demarcated area.
Guidance on restocking for owners and managers of woodland containing ash. An overview of considerations and signposts to appropriate sources of information.
Read how woodland creation can capture carbon, and how it can help your business.
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
A closed grant for creating native woodland or restoring plantations on ancient woodland sites near to the HS2 route.
Find out how the Forestry Commission supports you if you operate in woodland designated a site of special scientific interest (SSSI).
Find out the benefits of planting trees, including funding and support available to create woodland in England.
This document ensures a consistent approach to planning and assessing proposals for deforestation, and the wildfire risk resulting from those proposals.
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 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.
Find out about the many benefits that trees can bring to your land and the financial and expert support you can get from the Forestry Commission.
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.
The Forestry Commission decision framework for determining when to convert woodland to open habitat, and when compensatory tree planting is required.
Find out how to apply for consent for change of use to convert woodland to open habitat.
Find out about extraordinary payments for replanting trees and woodlands in exceptional circumstances after the hot and dry weather.
Find out how to improve permanent access and infrastructure at woodlands you manage.
Over two years, Mr Howes has planted a total of 18.54 hectares of new woodland on his farm.
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