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2016 – New planting and publicly funded restocking

New planting New planting is the creation of new areas of woodland by planting trees on land that was not previously woodland. The statistics presented here also include new woodland that is created by natural colonisation of trees on land near existing woodland. Statistics on new planting are used to inform government policy and resource allocation, […]

Origin of FE/FLS/NRW/FS softwood removals

Information on removals from Forestry England (FE), Forestry and Land Scotland (FLS), Natural Resources Wales (NRW) and Forest Service (FS) woodlands is obtained from administrative systems. A total of 4.5 million green tonnes of softwood was removed from FE/FLS/NRW/FS woodlands in 2018, a 7% decrease from the 2017 figure (Table 2.3). Over one half (54%) of […]

Area of woodland: 2019

The area of woodland in the UK at 31 March 2019 is estimated to be 3.19 million hectares (Table 1.1). Of this total, 1.5 million hectares (46%) is in Scotland, 1.3 million hectares (41%) is in England, 0.3 million hectares (10%) is in Wales and 0.1 million hectares (4%) is in Northern Ireland. Conifers account for […]

2017 – Woodland area and planting

Introduction The definition of woodland in United Kingdom forestry statistics is land under stands of trees with a canopy cover of at least 20% (or having the potential to achieve this), including integral open space, and including felled areas that are awaiting restocking. There is no minimum height for trees to form a woodland at maturity, […]

2016 – Woodland area and planting

Introduction The definition of woodland in United Kingdom forestry statistics is land under stands of trees with a canopy cover of at least 20% (or having the potential to achieve this), including integral open space, and including felled areas that are awaiting restocking. There is no minimum height for trees to form a woodland at maturity, […]

2019 – Woodland area and planting

Introduction The definition of woodland in United Kingdom forestry statistics is land under stands of trees with a canopy cover of at least 20% (or having the potential to achieve this), including integral open space, and including felled areas that are awaiting restocking. There is no minimum height for trees to form a woodland at maturity, so […]

Development pressure – challenges and practical considerations

Information on the development pressures, practical considerations, policy and issues of greenspace provision in urban areas

2019 – National Forest Inventory

This section contains interim results from the National Forest Inventory (NFI). The statistics are based on field survey data combined with information from the NFI woodland map, which is a spatial representation of woodland areas in Great Britain. Figures presented in this chapter are interim estimates at 31 March 2012, published in the NFI “50-year forecast of softwood timber availability” and “50-year forecast of hardwood […]

Open habitats

Ecological benefit of open habitats in urban or peri-urban greenspace

2017 – New planting and restocking by ownership

In 2016-17 most new planting (84%) took place on private sector land (Table 1.14). In contrast, over two thirds of reported restocking (69%) took place on FC/NRW/FS land. Table 1.14 New planting & publicly funded restocking by ownership Year (ending 31/3) New Planting   Restocking   Total   thousand hectares            FC/NRW/FS Private sector Total FC/NRW/FS Private sector Total FC/NRW/FS Private sector Total England          2012-13 0.0 2.6 2.6 2.2 1.7 4.0 2.2 4.3 6.6 2013-14 0.0 3.3 3.3 2.1 2.4 4.5 2.1 5.8 7.8 2014-15 0.0 2.4 2.4 2.3 4.2 6.4 2.3 6.6 8.8 2015-16 0.0 0.8 0.8 2.3 1.0 3.3 2.3 1.8 4.1 2016-17 0.0 1.1 1.1 2.4 0.6 3.0 2.4 1.7 4.1 Wales          2012-13 0.0 0.9 0.9 1.3 0.6 2.0 1.3 1.6 2.9 2013-14 0.0 0.9 0.9 1.6 0.7 2.3 1.6 1.6 3.2 2014-15 0.0 0.1 0.1 1.6 0.4 1.9 1.6 0.5 2.0 2015-16 0.0 0.1 0.1 1.5 0.3 1.8 1.5 0.5 1.9 2016-17 0.0 0.4 0.4 1.4 0.2 1.7 1.4 0.6 2.1 Scotland 2012-13 0.8 6.2 7.0 4.7 1.3 6.0 5.6 7.5 13.1 2013-14 06 7.7 8.3 6.2 1.7 7.9 6.8 9.4 16.2 2014-15 0.4 7.2 7.6 6.5 2.0 8.5 6.9 9.1 16.0 2015-16 0.7 3.9 4.6 6.6 1.3 7.8 7.3 5.2 12.5 2016-17 1.1 3.7 4.8 6.7 4.4 11.1 7.7 8.1 15.8 Northern Ireland 2012-13 0.0 0.3 0.3 1.1 0.1 1.2 1.1 0.4 1.4 2013-14 0.0 0.3 0.3 1.1 0.1 1.2 1.1 0.4 1.5 2014-15 0.0 0.2 0.2 0.9 0.2 1.0 0.9 0.4 1.3 2015-16 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.7 0.1 0.8 0.7 0.1 0.9 2016-17 0.0 0.2 0.2 1.3 0.1 1.3 1.3 0.3 1.5 UK 2012-13 0.9 9.9 10.8 9.3 3.8 13.1 10.2 13.8 23.9 2013-14 0.6 12.3 12.9 10.9 4.9 15.8 11.5 17.2 28.7 2014-15 0.4 9.9 10.3 11.0 6.6 17.8 11.6 16.5 28.1 2015-16 0.7 4.9 5.6 11.1 2.7 13.7 11.8 7.6 19.4 2016-17 1.1 5.5 6.5 11.7 5.3 17.1 12.8 10.8 23.6 Source: Forestry Commission, Natural Resources Wales, Forest Service, grant schemes. Notes: 1. Private […]

2017 – New planting and restocking: time series

Figure 1.6 shows areas of new planting by country since the year ending March 1976. UK new planting rates have fallen from the late 1980s, decreasing by 82% between 1988-89 and 2009-10. This followed changes to the tax benefits from owning forestry in the UK, introduced in the 1988 Finance Act (www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/39/contents). The area of new […]

2018 – New planting and restocking: time series

Figure 1.6 shows areas of new planting by country since the year ending March 1976. UK new planting rates have fallen from the late 1980s, decreasing by 82% between 1988-89 and 2009-10. This followed changes to the tax benefits from owning forestry in the UK, introduced in the 1988 Finance Act (www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/39/contents). The area of new […]