Trees, woodlands and forestry - Woodland Creation Planning Grant in Lancashire

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.

You can apply for £1,000 to complete stage 1 of the Woodland Creation Design Plan Template. This is a desk-based exercise to identify the constraints and opportunities that may affect the proposed planting.

If there’s potential for woodland creation to take place on the site, then you will be offered a stage 2 payment.

At stage 2, you can get £150 per hectare, minus the £1,000 offered at stage 1, to complete stage 2 of the Woodland Creation Design Plan Template. You may get supplementary payments for specialist survey work if a need for them is identified at stage 1. If your application is under ten hectares in size, we will make a minimum payment of £500 for stage 2.  The total amount of funding is capped at £30,000 per project. The funding will support you to gather and analyse the information that you need to make sure your proposal takes into account: 

You’ll have to develop a UK Forestry Standard-compliant plan for woodland creation that shows any constraints and opportunities, and how these are accounted for.If your land is already under an existing grant agreement, then your woodland creation design plan must cover the impact of tree planting on that agreement.