Forestry Commission
Details
It is recommended that you refer to the deforestation application guidance when filling out this form. This provides guidance on how to complete each individual question.
This form consists of 17 sections for you to complete:
- Applicant details
- Agent or woodland managers details
- Property details
- Proposals on sensitive areas
- Proposal size
- Proposal overview
- Adjacent projects
- Information about trees to be felled
- Creating open habitat
- Open habitat policy criteria
- Proposed implementation and management
- Environment checks
- Compensatory tree planting
- Stakeholders and evidence log
- Project maps
- Declarations
- Applying for Environmental Impact Assessment Consent (optional section)
Submit your form to your local Administrative Hub.
Creating open habitat with no Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) requirement
If you are applying for a felling licence for deforestation, but your project is low risk and does not need an EIA application (see EIA threshold table), please submit a partially completed version of the EIA deforestation application form alongside your felling licence application to show that your project aligns with the governments policy on when to convert woods and forests to open habitat in England.
You will only need to complete sections 9 to 11:
- Part 9 - Creating open habitat
- Part 10 - Open habitat policy criteria
- Part 11 - Proposed implementation and management
Download this form, complete sections 9, 10 and 11 only and send it when submitting your felling licence application.