Woodland Grant Scheme 2
FCPRODUCT.S_WGS2
The Woodland Grant Scheme (WGS) provided incentives for people to create and manage woodlands on sites all over Great Britain. The Forestry Commission (now Scottish Forestry) paid grants for establishing and looking after woodlands and forests. To qualify for grant the applicant had to meet the standards of environmental protection and practice set out in the Forestry Commission’s guidelines at that time. WGS2 operated between June 1991 and September 1994. It was replaced by WGS3 Updates to scheme boundaries and grant aided areas were incorporated into the dataset on a regular basis until the end of 2012. No further changes will be made after this time.
dataset
https://open-data-scottishforestry.hub.arcgis.com/
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name: Scottish Forestry Open Data
description: Data download site
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name: 2
description: Woodland Grant Scheme 2
FCPRODUCT.S_WGS2
eng
EPSG
OSGB 1936 / British National Grid (EPSG:27700)
farming
biota
economy
environment
Forest Management
Grant Schemes
Planning
Environment
Felling
Landscape
Woodland
Licence
Ownership
Forestry
WGS
Land use
publication
2008-06-01
-8.8
-0.71
60.87
54.63
publication
2007-12-13
GB-SCT
creation
1997-09-01
revision
2012-05-04
notPlanned
The spatial element of this dataset was digitised by Scottish Forestry's Geo-Information Services using both Laserscan's LAMPS and ESRI's ArcView software. The textual element was extracted from the WGS Oracle database using Business Objects and associated with the polygon data. Information was mapped following final approval stage from contract maps supplied by the applicants (normally based on 1:2500 or 1:10,000 OS maps). Spatial data was digitised against OS raster backdrops using 1:25,000 scale between 1997 and 2000, and 1:10,000 scale between 2000 and 2004. Updates to scheme boundaries and grant aided areas were incorporated into the dataset on a regular basis until the end of 2012. No further changes will be made after this time. Contents of the dataset: The dataset identifies areas approved by grant type within each WGS scheme boundary. The list below provides a summary of the grant types captured: SCHEME BOUNDARY - The boundary of the area(s) included within the scheme (contract). NEW PLANTING APPROVED - Areas within the contract where new planting has been approved under NP, NB, NS, NC, NK, NX and/or NY. NEW NATURAL REGENERATION APPROVED - Areas within the contract where new natural regeneration has been approved under NN, NL and/or NZ. REPLANTING/REGENERATION/MANAGEMENT - Areas within the contract where replanting, restocking by natural regeneration or management has been approved under RP, RN, RC RG,RQ, EN, MG and/or SM. COMMUNITY WOODLAND CONTRIBUTION - Areas within the contract approved for Community Woodland Contribution. CWC is available to encourage the creation of new woodlands near towns and cities which can be used for informal recreation. The following lists the abbreviations used above: NP New planting NB New planting with better land supplement NS New planting accepted into the 1988 set-aside scheme NC New planting of coppice NK New planting of coppice with better land supplement NQ New planting short rotation coppice NU New planting short rotation coppice with better land supplement NN New planting by natural regeneration NL New planting by natural regeneration with better land supp NZ New planting by natural regeneration with set-aside RP Restocking by replanting RC Restocking with coppice (planting not regrowth) RQ Restocking with short rotation coppice (planting not regrowth) RN Restocking by natural regeneration EN Restocking by existing natural regeneration MG Management grant SM Special management grant Dataset Attributes: FEATDESC Description of identified feature PROPNO Property number PLANNO Plan number PROPNAME Property name PLAN_TYPE Type of plan (Management, Establishment, Both) PROP_TYPE Property type (Farm, Recreation, etc) OWNER_TYPE Owner type (Business, Personal Occupier, etc) GRID_REF National grid reference (NS987435) LOCAL_AUTH Council (eg. Highland Council) CWSPREM Is the scheme eligible for CWS (Y/N) FWPSPREM Is the scheme eligible for FWPS (Y/N) CNT_START Date the contract started CNT_END Date the contract ends CONS_NAME Conservancy name CON_AREA Total conifer planting under work type (ha) BL_AREA Total broadleaf planting under work type (ha) PCEN_CON Percentage conifer planting under work type PCEN_BL Percentage broadleaf planting under work type CON_UNPD Conifer area still to receive 1st Inst (ha) BL_UNPD Broadleaf area still to receive 1st Inst (ha) PC_C_UNPD Percentage conifer still to receive 1st Inst PC_BL_UNPD Percentage broadleaf still to receive 1st Inst TOT_AREA Total area of work type within scheme
ESRI Shapefile
1.0
No limitations on public access
Please ensure that the following acknowledgement is displayed on any hard copy: Reproduced by Permission of Ordnance Survey on behalf of HMSO. © Crown copyright and database right [year]. Ordnance Survey Licence number 100043970.
Head of Geo-Information Services
Scottish Forestry
Silvan House, 231 Corstorphine Road
Edinburgh
EH12 7AT
United Kingdom
geoinformationservices@forestry.gov.scot
publisher
Head of Operational Delivery
Scottish Forestry
Silvan House, 231 Corstorphine Road
Edinburgh
EH12 7AT
United Kingdom
geoinformationservices@forestry.gov.scot
owner
Head of Geo-Information Services
Scottish Forestry
Silvan House, 231 Corstorphine Road
Edinburgh
EH12 7AT
United Kingdom
geoinformationservices@forestry.gov.scot
pointOfContact
2020-07-08