Felling Licence Applications For Highways England Land
Felling Licence Application (FLA) areas approved by Forestry Commission England. Anyone wishing to fell trees must ensure that a licence or permission under a grant scheme has been issued by the Forestry Commission before any felling is carried out or that one of the exceptions apply. You normally need to get permission from the Forestry Commission to fell growing trees. This is usually given in a Felling Licence or an approval under a grant scheme. In certain circumstances you may also need special permission from another organisation for any proposed felling. This sometimes applies even if you do not need a Felling Licence. Everyone involved in the felling of trees, whether doing the work or by engaging others, eg. the owner, agent, timber merchant or contractor, must ensure that a licence or approval under a grant scheme has been issued before any felling is carried out or that one of the exceptions apply. They must also ensure that the work is carried out in accordance with the terms of a Forestry Commission permission. If there is no licence or other valid permission, or if the wrong trees are felled, anyone involved can be prosecuted. Do not begin felling until the Forestry Commission have issued a licence or other permission. Any felling carried out without either a licence or other permission is an offence, unless it is covered by an exception. Full details are available in the Forestry Commission's booklet 'Tree Felling - Getting Permission'. This dataset differs from a standard FLA in the following way: The dataset contains land (mostly near to roads) that Highways England maintain. A felling licence has been approved to cover a 5 year period following the recommendation in the agreed memorandum of understanding between the Forestry Commission and Highways England. The area delineated shows what could be thinned rather than what will be thinned and does not negate the requirements for consulting other statutory agencies. The licence provides Highways England with permission to undertake thinning operations for the removal of a proportion of trees in a forest, woodland or line after canopy closure, usually quantified by the percentage of canopy cover or number of stems removed not usually exceeding 30% at any intervention. Felling outside of this definition may require additional licencing. Attributes: FEATDESC - Type of licence approved. FELLREF - Reference that relates to licence details in the master Felling Licence Database. Please ensure that the following acknowledgement is displayed on any hard copy: © Crown copyright and database right 'year'. Ordnance Survey Licence number 100021242. Attribution statement: Contains OS data © Crown copyright [and database right] [year].
dataset
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environment
England
Felling
Highways
Licence
Opendata
Thinning
Woodland
environment
management
publication
2010-01-13
forestry
publication
2010-01-13
Area management/restriction/regulation zones and reporting units
publication
2008-06-01
tree
publication
2010-01-13
woodland clearance
publication
2010-01-13
forestry
publication
2010-01-13
Bio-geographical regions
publication
2008-06-01
-6.236
2.072
55.816
49.943
2016-09-30
2016-09-30
creation
2016-09-30
revision
2016-09-30
irregular
Information is digitised against OS Mastermap. Between 1997 and 2004, FLA's were digitised against OS 25K and 10K raster backdrops. From 2005 onwards, OS MasterMap has been used as the base mapping. There was some overlap of capture standards during 2005 with no clear cut-off date for the switch to OS MasterMap.
Open format | Shapefile (SHP)
1998
Contains Forestry Commission information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
There are no public access constraints to this data. Use of this data is subject to the licence identified.
There are no public access constraints to this data. Use of this data is subject to the licence identified.
Forestry Commission
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pointOfContact
Forestry Commission
mapping.geodata@forestry.gov.uk
pointOfContact
2024-05-08