Identification

Title

Felling Licence Applications England

Alternative title(s)

Abstract

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, e.g.. 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 contains all approved licences that have be captured digitally at the time the data was updated. Attributes: Descriptor = Type of licence approved. Fell_ref = Reference that relates to licence details in the master Felling Licence Database. DateApp = The date the licence was approved by the FC Attribution statement: Contains OS data © Crown copyright [and database right] [year].

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

http://data-forestry.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/f0fe491790df46f8bb01d54e6875ef63_0

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

name: Felling Licence Applications England

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

Felling

Licence

Thinning

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

2016-09-30

Dataset reference date

date type

creation

effective date

2016-03-31

date type

revision

effective date

2016-09-30

Frequency of update

quarterly

Quality and validity

Lineage

Information is digitised following approval of the licence from agreement maps supplied by the applicant (normally based on 1:2500 or 1:10,000 OS maps). 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.

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

2020-03-19

Metadata language