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How to use the optional Countryside Stewardship monitoring report and photographic monitoring report templates.
Supplementary guidance offering an overview of those priority open habitats most likely to need consideration during the planning and assessment of woodland creation proposals.
Find out how to restock trees on a site where they have been felled due to pests or disease.
Diversification for long-term returns.
How the Forestry Commission will apply the 2024 rate uplifts to England Woodland Creation Offer (EWCO) applications and agreements.
Find out the minimum standards for a deer and mammal risk assessment for woodland creation and how to carry out the survey.
If you're an existing Local Authority Treescapes Fund (LATF) grant holder, use these forms and guidance to submit a claim. The LATF is closed for applications.
Find out about the successful projects that will enhance and facilitate tree production methods used in the UK.
Find out how you can protect and manage trees and woodlands in urban areas.
Find out how to improve permanent access and infrastructure at woodlands you manage.
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 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 about projects by successful grant recipients of the Forestry Commission's Seed Sourcing Grant.
Learn how the THP can help proactively manage spruce, including felling, restocking and maintaining newly planted trees within the proactive spruce removal area in the south-east of England.
The Forestry Commission decision framework for determining when to convert woodland to open habitat, and when compensatory tree planting is required.
Read about the family farm financial case study, to help understand woodland creation financials on a 10 hectare site.
Find out how land managers can look after newly planted trees in areas where there’s been restocking due to pests and disease.
How to deal with threats - like grey squirrels and rhododendron - to protect native species and habitats in woodlands.
This document ensures a consistent approach to planning and assessing proposals for deforestation, and the wildfire risk resulting from those proposals.
Guidance on the Forestry Commission’s interpretation of trees and woodland for the purposes of felling licences and forestry environmental impact assessments.
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