UNITED KINGDOM · ENGLAND · LAND-BASED SCHEMES · FORESTRY
Woodland Creation Low Sensitivity
What this layer shows
The England Woodland Creation Offer's low-sensitivity land (map v4): where woodland creation is unlikely to conflict with priority habitats, heritage or protected landscapes, so an EWCO application moves fastest. 27,344 areas.
Publisher and licence
Contains, or is based on, information supplied by the Forestry Commission. © Crown copyright and database right 2026 Ordnance Survey [100021242]. © Natural England copyright [2019], reproduced with the permission of Natural England, www.gov.uk/natural-england © Crown Copyright and database right 2026. Ordnance Survey licence number 100022021. Derived from 1:50 000 scale BGS Digital Data under Licence 2006/072 British Geological Survey. © NERC. National Soils map © Cranfield University (NSRI) © Crown Copyright and database rights 2026. Data reproduced with the permission of RSPB. © Crown Copyright. Ordnance Survey licence number 100021787 (2026). Data reproduced with the permission of ARCH AI, OGL v3.0
Where the data comes from
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Facts shown for each feature
Sensitivity · Area (ha)
In these presets
Forestry
The checks behind a felling licence or a woodland creation application: ancient woodland and its revision, the National Forest Inventory, the live felling licence register, EWCO low-sensitivity land, the 1891–1914 historic woodland maps, wood pasture, deciduous priority habitat, and the statutory designations that constrain felling and planting: SSSI, SAC, SPA and Ramsar.