Felling Licence Applications England
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].
dataset
https://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
a1fdf1f9-c208-4b1d-8c64-2ab00476df18
eng
http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/27700
environment
England
Land use
OpenData
Woodland
Management
Felling
Licence
Thinning
publication
2008-06-01
forestry
publication
2010-01-13
-6.236
2.072
55.816
49.943
http://data.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/doc/country/england
2005-04-01
2016-09-30
creation
2016-03-31
revision
2016-09-30
quarterly
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.
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.
Forestry Commission
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pointOfContact
Forestry Commission
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pointOfContact
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