Woodland Creation Planning Grant

The UK Government's Woodland Creation Planning Grant (WCPG) offers funding of up to £30,500 for the production of a UKFS-compliant woodland creation design plan. Landowners, land managers and public bodies can apply. WCPG is open for applications year-round and is expected to run until 2030.

Summary

The funding will support you to gather and analyse the information that you need to make sure your proposal takes into account: 

• biodiversity 
• landscape 
• water 
• historic environment
• local stakeholders (to support your engagement with stakeholders, please share this letter to request stakeholder input with them when you contact them for information to explain how their response will be used)

You’ll have to develop a UK Forestry Standard-compliant plan for woodland creation that shows any constraints and opportunities, and how these are accounted for.If your land is already under an existing grant agreement, then your woodland creation design plan must cover the impact of tree planting on that agreement.

Eligibility

Landowners, land managers and public bodies (other than Forestry England) can apply to support the design of new woodland under the Woodland Creation Planning Grant (WCPG), provided the work is not already required under existing obligations. Crown bodies and Non-Departmental Public Bodies (NDPBs) are not eligible for funding through WCPG.You must plan to create woodland that is: 

• located in England
• a minimum of 5 hectares or more in total size: if the proposed woodland is split into different blocks, each block must meet the definition of woodland set out by the National Forest Inventory: a minimum area of 0.5 hectares and a minimum width of 20 metres 

Find out more and apply at Trees, woodlands and forestry - Woodland Creation Planning Grant - GOV-UK Find a grant

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