We use some essential cookies to make this website work.
We’d like to set additional cookies to understand how you use GOV.UK, remember your settings and improve government services.
We also use cookies set by other sites to help us deliver content from their services.
You have accepted additional cookies. You can change your cookie settings at any time.
You have rejected additional cookies. You can change your cookie settings at any time.
Departments, agencies and public bodies
News stories, speeches, letters and notices
Detailed guidance, regulations and rules
Reports, analysis and official statistics
Consultations and strategy
Data, Freedom of Information releases and corporate reports
Find out how to import timber and wood material, including the documents, identity checks and plant health inspections required.
Check the tariff classification for bark and production waste, scrap, rejects and residues.
Find out about the eight-toothed spruce bark beetle (Ips typographus), including how to report sightings.
Types of waste and maximum amounts you can use for spreading as mulch to benefit land around trees, bushes or plants, under U12 waste exemption.
The Spruce Site Assessment grant will help woodland owners to evaluate their spruce trees, estimate felling costs and plan for early removal before potential infestations of Ips typographus.
20 waste codes are municipal wastes (household waste and similar commercial, industrial and institutional wastes) including separately collected fractions. Your permit lists the 20 waste codes you can use. You must follow the guidance given in the Before you start...
Get help to classify various types of wood for import and export.
Find out how land managers can look after newly planted trees in areas where there’s been restocking due to pests and disease.
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...
Don’t include personal or financial information like your National Insurance number or credit card details.
To help us improve GOV.UK, we’d like to know more about your visit today. Please fill in this survey (opens in a new tab and requires JavaScript).