English Woodland Grant Scheme: Approved Application Boundaries, 2005-2015

England's approved woodland grant application boundaries from the English Woodland Grant Scheme (EWGS), which operated from 2005 to 2015. The dataset contains spatial boundaries for all approved cases under six grant types for woodland creation, management, and improvement, as administered by the Forestry Commission. It represents the aggregated case-level extents, with more detailed sub-compartment data available separately.

Use Cases

• Analyzing the spatial distribution of historical woodland grant uptake based on case boundaries.
• Assessing the scale and location of past woodland creation and management projects based on the described grant types.
• Studying the transition from the EWGS to Countryside Stewardship by examining the final approved cases before the 2015 closure.

Strengths

• Contains all approved cases from the scheme's full operational period (2005-2015).
• Clearly defines the relationship between case boundaries and more detailed sub-compartment data.
• Documents six specific grant types (e.g., Woodland Creation, Management, Improvement) with their purposes.

Limitations

• Row count and file size are 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

Forestry Commission, via the UK Government Digital Service.

Collection Method

Administrative data from the English Woodland Grant Scheme application and approval process.

Time Range

2005 to 2015

Freshness

Data is historical, covering a closed scheme (2005-2015); updates are unlikely.

Geography

England