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Managed Woodland Headline Performance Indicator England 30 June 2021

Summary

This data is the source dataset for the Forestry Commissions Headline Performance Indicator: 'Percentage of woodland in active management (including the Public Forest Estate)'. This Indicator forms part of the Forestry Commissions Corporate Plan Performance Indicators and Woodland Indicators 2021/22. This FC website gives more information about the Performance Indicators: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/forestry-commission-corporate-plan-performance-indicators For the purposes of the corporate indicator, 'Actively Managed’ woodland is currently defined using the following FC administrative data sources. It is recognised that there are other woodlands that could be considered to be 'managed'. 1) Any English Woodland Grant Scheme (EWGS) Woodland Creation Grant (WCG) whose first instalment payment date was < 15 years ago at the end of the reporting period. 2) Any English Woodland Grant Scheme (EWGS) Woodland Management Grant (WMG) whose first instalment payment date was < 15 years ago at the end of the reporting period. 3) Any English Woodland Grant Scheme (EWGS) Woodland Planning Grant (WPG) whose first instalment payment date was < 15 years ago at the end of the reporting period. 4) Any English Woodland Grant Scheme (EWGS) Woodland Improvement Grant (WIG) whose first instalment payment date was < 15 years ago at the end of the reporting period. 5) Any Farm Woodland Premium Scheme (FWPS) and Farm Woodland Premium (FWP) whose scheme approval date was <15 years ago at the end of the reporting period. 6) Any Woodland Grants Scheme Mk3 (WGS3) schemes that have been in contract in the 15 years up until the end of the reporting period. 7) Any Felling Licence Applications (FLA) whose registration date was <15 years ago at the end of the reporting period. 8) All Public Forest Estate land owned and/or managed by the Forestry Commission at the end of the reporting period. 9) All woodland managed by the Defence Infrastructure Organisation department of the MOD classified as a Training Area. 10) Any Countryside Stewardship Woodland Creation agreement whose first payment date was < 15 years ago at the end of the reporting period. EXCLUDED: EWGS Woodland Assessment Grant (WAG), EWGS Woodland Regeneration Grant (WRG), Forest Plans, Dedication, WGS2, WGS1 and Natural England’s HLS. The 'denominator' used for calculation of the indicator, i.e. the figure used as the entire woodland area in England, was that obtained from the most recent version of the National Forest Inventory (NFI) at the time of computation. The administrative data sources are integrated to produce a single layer indicating woodland management status and this is provided as a georeferenced .tiff raster file here. Cell values: 0 = Unmanaged woodland, 1 = Actively managed woodland. Cell size: 25m. Please ensure that the following acknowledgement is displayed on any hard copy: © Crown copyright and database right 'year'. Ordnance Survey Licence number 100021242.

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Use limitation statement

There are no public access constraints to this data. Use of this data is subject to the licence identified.

Licence

Contains Forestry Commission information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Attribution statement

Contains OS data © Crown copyright [and database right] [year].

Technical information

Update frequency

notPlanned

Lineage

Update – 30/06/12 The latest version of the NFI - dated 31 March 2011 - was used as the woodland baseline. Update – 30/06/13 The latest version of the NFI - dated 31 March 2012 - was used as the woodland baseline. Update – 30/06/14 From the 30/06/14 update to this dataset the time period for which each input dataset is considered indicative of management was standardised to 15 years. Further information can be obtained by contacting the data custodian. Additionally woodland defined as a training area by the Defence Infrastructure Organisation was included as ‘managed’ woodland for the first time. Update – 30/09/14 The latest version of the NFI - dated 31 March 2013 - was used as the woodland baseline. Update – 30/09/15 The latest version of the NFI - dated 31 March 2014 - was used as the woodland baseline. Update – 30/09/16 The latest version of the NFI - dated 31 March 2015 - was used as the woodland baseline. The data is built from the administrative vector data inputs described in the abstract and the Forestry Commissions National Forest Inventory (NFI) vector dataset. All vector inputs are put through a rasterisation process to produce rasters with a resolution of 25 metres. All administrative raster inputs are then combined to create a single 'Managed Woodland' input raster with a 25 resolution. This combined input raster is then used to reclassify the NFI 25m raster into values representing 'Actively Managed' and 'Unmanaged'. Finally the reclassified NFI raster is converted to TIFF format to produce the dataset this metadata is associated with.

Spatial information

Geographic extent

  • Latitude from: 49.943 to 55.816
  • Longitude from: -6.236 to 2.072
Metadata information

Language

English

Metadata identifier

3b0507a7-a0ab-49da-934d-00ab363c9631


Published by

Forestry Commission


Dataset reference dates

Creation date

30 June 2021

Revision date

30 June 2021

Publication date

N/A

Period

  • From: 01 April 2017
  • To: 30 June 2017

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