£900 million was allocated over six years for the Countryside Stewardship grant scheme launched in 2015. This dataset contains the approved case boundaries for woodland grant applications submitted during the 2015 application window, managed by the Forestry Commission. The boundaries represent the overall extent of each approved application, aggregating smaller sub-compartments.
Use Cases
- Mapping the spatial distribution of approved woodland grants based on the case boundary polygons.
- Analyzing grant approval timelines based on the DateApprv attribute.
- Comparing grant case types and areas across Forestry Commission regions based on the CaseType and FSArea attributes.
- Calculating total grant-supported woodland area based on the AreaHa attribute.
Strengths
- Contains boundaries for all approved cases from the inception of the scheme.
- Includes attributes for case reference, name, area, approval date, and status.
- Data structure is documented as similar to its predecessor, the English Woodland Grant Scheme.
Limitations
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.
Provenance
- Source
- Government Digital Service
- Collection Method
- Data recorded within the system of the predecessor English Woodland Grant Scheme.
- Time Range
- 2015 application window
- Geography
- England