FGS Woodland Creation - Claims
Scotland’s woodlands and forests are a vital national resource and play an important role in rural development and sustainable land use.
As well as helping to reduce the impacts of climate change and providing timber for industry, our forests enhance and protect the environment and provide opportunities for public enjoyment.
The Forestry Grant Scheme (FGS) will support:
- the creation of new woodlands, contributing towards the Scottish Government target of over 10,000 hectares of new woodlands per year
- the sustainable management of existing woodlands
WOODLAND CREATION - CLAIMS
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The aim of this category is to support the creation of new woodland that will bring economic, environmental and social benefits.
These benefits include:
- meeting our target to increase woodland cover by an extra 100,000 hectares between 2012 and 2022
- helping mitigate climate change by reducing greenhouse gas emissions through carbon sequestration
- restoration of 'lost' habitats through developing forest habitat networks
- supporting a sustainable forest industry by providing a reliable timber supply
- protecting soil and water
- providing community benefits through public access
- enhancing urban areas and improving landscapes
- supporting rural development through local businesses and farm diversification
This dataset identifies areas where tree planting has taken place under the following FGS woodland creation options:
- Conifer
- Diverse Conifer
- Broadleaves
- Native Scots Pine
- Native Upland Birch
- Native Broadleaves
- Native Low-density Broadleaves
- Small or Farm Woodlands
- Native Broadleaves in Northern and Western Isles
The polygons in this dataset identify the spatial location of tree species grant aided under FGS and the planting year. All areas of grant aided open ground (OG) and non-grant aided other land (OL) are excluded from this dataset.
Default
- Alternate title
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S_FGS1424_WOOD_CREATION_CLAIM
- Date ()
- 2015-11-20
- Date ()
- 2024-07-19
- Identifier
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S_FGS1424_WOOD_CREATION_CLAIM
- Presentation form
- mapDigital
Scottish Forestry
-GIS
(Head of Geo-Information Services
)Saughton House, Broomhouse Drive
,Edinburgh
,City of Edinburgh
,EH11 3XD
,United Kingdom
Scottish Forestry
-Operational Delivery
(Head of Operational Delivery
)Saughton House, Broomhouse Drive
,Edinburgh
,City of Edinburgh
,EH11 3XD
,United Kingdom
- Maintenance and update frequency
- monthly
- Keywords
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Forest Management
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Grant Schemes
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Planning
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Environment
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Felling
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Landscape
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Woodland
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Licence
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Ownership
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FGS
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Forestry
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- GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 ()
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Land use
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- Access constraints
- otherRestrictions
- Other constraints
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No limitations on public access
- Use constraints
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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.
- Use constraints
- Open Government Licence
- Spatial representation type
- vector
- Denominator
- 10000
- Metadata language
- eng (en)
- Topic category
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- Farming
- Biota
- Economy
- Environment
- Geographic identifier
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GB-SCT
- Date ()
- 2007-12-13
- Reference system identifier
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EPSG
/OSGB 1936 / British National Grid (EPSG:27700)
/7.9
- Distribution format
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ESRI Shapefile
(1.0
) -
WMS
(1.3.0
)
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- OnLine resource
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Scottish Forestry Open Data
(
WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
)Data download site
- OnLine resource
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FGS Option Guidance Document
(
WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
)
- OnLine resource
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FGS_Woodland_Creation_Claims
(
OGC:WMS-1.3.0-http-get-map
)FGS Woodland Creation - Claims
- Scope
- dataset
- Statement
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This dataset is maintained by Scottish Forestry Geo-Information Services. The data capture is based on OS maps supplied by applicants that have been uploaded into Scottish Government's Rural Payments and Services (RP&S) system. The maps are geo-referenced and digitised by Geo-Information Services.
Geo-Information Services interpret the scheme boundaries using RPID field boundaries, Ordnance Survey MasterMap, aerial photography and other relevant datasets where required (e.g. previous grant scheme data).
Dataset Attributes:
case_ref - FGS reference number
claim_no - Claim number
claim_year - financial year work will be completed and grant claimed
fgs_option - Option name
option_code - Option code
species - Species
species_type - Conifer, Broadleaf, or Mixed
approval_year - Year application approved
conservancy_name - Conservancy office
area_ha - Area of captured feature in hectares
Metadata
- Metadata language
- eng (en)
- Resource Type
- dataset
- Date stamp
- 2024-07-19
- Metadata standard name
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UK GEMINI
- Metadata standard version
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2.2
Scottish Forestry
-GIS
(Head of Geo-Information Services
)Saughton House, Broomhouse Drive
,Edinburgh
,City of Edinburgh
,EH11 3XD
,United Kingdom