Trees, woodlands and forestry - Woodland Creation Planning Grant
Product Description:
The Woodland Creation Planning Grant (WCPG) offers funding of up to £30,000 for the production of a UKFS-compliant Woodland Creation Design Plan. The scheme was re-launched in autumn 2020 to enable more people to apply and help proposals move more quickly through the Environmental Impact Assessment process and future planting and establishment grant funding.
Who can apply Personal / Individual, Public Sector, Non-profit, Private Sector
How much you can get From £1,000 to £30,000
Total size of grant scheme £708,607
Eligibility:
You must plan to create woodland that is:?
- located in England
- a?minimum of?five?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 meters.??
If?you intend to seek grant aid to plant the woodland,?you?should consider the minimum?areas?required to apply for grants for woodland creation?when planning your proposal.
Landscape-scale applications that span multiple land holdings may be accepted. You do not need to own or control the?land,?but?you?will need a letter confirming that the landowner(s) support the application. If your proposed site spans a border, we will only make a stage 2 payment of £150 per hectare on the land that is in England.
You may include more than 20% of designed open space in your plan if the constraints of your site make this necessary, but the total stage 2 payment will be limited to the net planting area plus 20% (of the gross area). This means that any designed open space in your plan over and above 20% of the total project area will not receive funding.
Districts:
- Leicester City
- Blaby
- Charnwood
- Oadby and Wigston
- Melton
- Harborough
- Northwest Leicestershire
- Bosworth and Hinckley