The Woodland Grant Scheme (WGS) provided incentives for people to create and manage woodlands on sites all over Great Britain. The Forestry Commission paid grants for establishing and looking after woodlands and forests. To qualify for grant the applicant had meet the standards of environmental protection and practice set out in the Forestry Commission's guidelines. WGS3 was operative from October 1994 until its closure to new applications in June 2004.
Contents of the dataset:
There are two spatial datasets associated with the WGS. These represent the scheme boundary and the grant areas that are encapsulated by this scheme boundary.
Boundaries are captured using OS 1:10 000 scale raster maps with reference to maps submitted by the applicant.
WGS scheme boundary and grant areas:
A single WGS scheme is encapsulated by it's scheme boundary, within which a variety of grant types could be applied, each residing in their own grant area boundary.
Important note on spatial duplication:
The data is a compiled dataset containing all scheme boundaries under the WGS plan and the grant areas distinguished by the 'Descriptor' attribute.
Therefore there are numerous spatial duplicates, the frequency of which is dependent on the grants applied in that WGS case. Caution should be exercised during the use of this compiled data accordingly.
Attributes:
Descriptor = Description of identified feature
PropNumber = Property number
PlanNumber = 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 (e.g. Lancaster City Council)
Cont_Start = Date the contract started
Cont_End = Date the contract ends
Case_Offcr = Woodland Officers name
Appr_Offcr = Approving Officers name
Cons_Name = Conservancy name
Total_Area = Total area of work type within scheme Attribution statement: © Forestry Commission copyright and/or database right 2011. All rights reserved. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2011.
