Identification

Title

English Woodland Grant Scheme Boundary

Alternative title(s)

Abstract

The English Woodland Grant Scheme (EWGS) was launched in 2005 and offered 6 grants for the creation and stewardship of woodlands. This dataset contains the scheme or 'case' boundaries that make up the EWGS applications approved by the Forestry Commission. EWGS is now closed and was superseded by Countryside Stewardship in 2015. Grant types under EWGS: Woodland Planning Grant (WPG) - 'To support the preparation of woodland management plans' Designed primarily to aid the production of management plans - the foundation of sustainable management. The management plan template meets UKWAS planning requirements, thus assisting entry into certification. Woodland Assessment Grant (WAG) - 'To support information gathering that improves management decisions'. Designed to obtain further information, where there is an identified need. The information required should inform management decisions and reflect the sensitivity of the site and proposed work. Woodland Regeneration Grant (WRG) - 'To support desirable changes in woodland at the time of greatest opportunity'. Designed to support the re-establishment of trees when woodland felling has taken place. Woodland Improvement Grant (WIG) - 'To support capital projects in woodlands'. Designed to support work such as access tracks, uneconomic thinning, coppicing, rhododendron clearance and public access facilities. Woodland Management Grant (WMG) - 'To support the basic management activities that underpin woodland sustainability'. Designed to support operations that maintain or enhance the environmental and social value e.g. ride management, pest management, coppicing and uneconomic thinning. Woodland Creation Grant (WCG) - 'To support the creation of properly designed and well located new woodlands' Further information can be found in the 'EWGS General Guide' available from the Forestry Commission England's website in addition to the Regional Prospectus for particular grant types: https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/forestry-commission There are two spatial datasets associated with the EWGS. These represent the Case Boundary - this dataset - and the Sub-compartments that are encapsulated by a case boundary. Sub-compartments are available as a separate dataset and contain more detail about the grants awarded to each case. EWGS Sub-compartments vs case boundaries: Sub-compartments are the smallest mapped unit of grant aided area under the EWGS. Sub-compartments are aggregated up to Case Boundaries, and these boundaries are subsequently used to describe the overall extent of the EWGS case. A single case represents one application from an applicant for grant aid, and there may be a number of different grant types contained within a single case. All boundaries for cases that have been approved (and were not subsequently withdrawn without payment) from the inception of the EWGS are contained in this dataset. Some cases have passed out of the obligation period of the contract which they are under. These cases have a case status of 'Closed'. Attributes: CaseRef = EWGS Case unique identifier PropName = The case name FSArea = The Forestry Commission Area who dealt with the case CaseType = The case type DateApprv = The date the case was approved by the Forestry Commission CurrStat = The status of the case at the time the data was created AreaHa = Area in hectares of the case Attribution statement: Contains OS data © Crown copyright [and database right] [year].

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

http://data-forestry.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/b04623c9c3d046e8a4e94666b6617df8_0

protocol: WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link

name: English Woodland Grant Scheme Boundary

description: Forestry Commission Open Data Site

Unique resource identifier

code

a1fdf1f9-c208-4b1d-8c64-2ab00476df18

codeSpace

Dataset language

eng

Spatial reference system

code identifying the spatial reference system

http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/27700

Classification of spatial data and services

Topic category

environment

Keywords

Keyword set

keyword value

England

Keyword set

keyword value

Land use

OpenData

Woodland

Management

Planning

New Planting

Felling

Regeneration

Grant Schemes

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2008-06-01

Keyword set

keyword value

forestry

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2010-01-13

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

-6.236

East bounding longitude

2.072

North bounding latitude

55.816

South bounding latitude

49.943

Extent

Extent group

authority code

code identifying the extent

http://data.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/doc/country/england

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

2005-04-01

End position

2016-03-31

Dataset reference date

date type

creation

effective date

2009-10-14

date type

revision

effective date

2016-03-31

Frequency of update

asNeeded

Quality and validity

Lineage

EWGS data is captured to Ordnance Survey MasterMap and the Rural Land Register where appropriate and possible.

Conformity

Data format

name of format

Open format | Shapefile (SHP)

version of format

1998

Constraints related to access and use

Constraint set

Use constraints

Contains Forestry Commission information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Constraint set

Limitations on public access

There are no public access constraints to this data. Use of this data is subject to the licence identified.

Responsible organisations

Responsible party

organisation name

Forestry Commission

email address

mapping.geodata@forestry.gov.uk

web address

http://www.forestry.gov.uk/

description: Forestry Commission Website

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata on metadata

Metadata point of contact

organisation name

Forestry Commission

email address

mapping.geodata@forestry.gov.uk

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata date

2019-08-15

Metadata language