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Grants to plant trees.
Farmers and landowners throughout Yorkshire are being encouraged to apply for a grant that will support the creation of woodland on their land.
The England Woodland Creation Offer (EWCO), which is due to open to applications soon, will be administered by the Forestry Commission to support landowners and land managers to create new woodland.
A replacement to the Woodland Carbon Fund, which closed for applications in March, the EWCO follows the UK government’s commitment to ambitious tree planting through the launch of its England Trees Action Plan for 2021-2024 that is designed to provide a long-term vision for trees and woodlands in England, with a promise to triple the current tree planting rate in the country so that the UK hits its 30,000 hectares per year target.
New grant offer for farmers looking to plant woodland
25 May 2021 |
Farmers and land managers will soon be able to apply to the new woodland grant offer
Farmers and landowners are set to gain more support to plant woodland under the government s new England Woodland Creation Offer.
The grant offer, which will open to applications in late spring, will support the creation of over 10,000 hectares of new woodland over its lifetime.
It will focus funding predominantly on planting native broadleaf woodlands at a large scale, but also supporting well-designed majority conifer and mixed woodlands.
The EWCO will support projects at different scales, from a minimum size woodland of just 1 hectare per application and 0.1 hectare per block.
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All land you are planning to count as temporary grassland for BPS. You can include the areas of strips and margins of temporary grassland under the land use code you are using for the main land use of the parcel and they don’t need to be separately identified.
Land lying fallow
All land you are planning to count as fallow land for BPS.
Wild bird mixes can be coded under a number of different land use codes, as long as in your individual example matches the criteria, for example:
a) as a mixed crop if there is an area where a seed mixture is sown, it doesn’t matter what crops are included in the mix.