Managed Woodland Headline Performance Indicator England 31 March 2021

Forestry Commission data tracks the percentage of woodland in England under active management, a key corporate performance indicator. The dataset defines 'actively managed' woodland using ten administrative criteria, including grant schemes, felling licenses, and public estate land. It supports reporting for specific fiscal years, with sources referencing the 2011/12, 2018/19, and 2020/21 indicator cycles.

Use Cases

• Calculating the headline performance indicator 'Percentage of woodland in active management' based on the ten defined administrative criteria.
• Monitoring the uptake and recent history of English Woodland Grant Scheme (EWGS) payments for woodland creation, management, planning, and improvement.
• Tracking woodland areas covered by Farm Woodland Premium Scheme (FWPS) approvals and Woodland Grants Scheme Mk3 (WGS3) contracts.
• Assessing the extent of woodland management activity via Felling Licence Applications (FLA) registered within defined timeframes.
• Evaluating the contribution of Public Forest Estate land and Ministry of Defence training areas to overall managed woodland coverage.

Strengths

• Provides the official source data for a UK government Forestry Commission headline performance indicator.
• Offers a detailed, multi-criteria operational definition of 'actively managed' woodland across ten distinct administrative sources.
• Is referenced across multiple platforms (uk_data, eu_open_data), indicating its importance and repeated use.

Limitations

• Column names and data structure are unknown, limiting understanding of the dataset's internal organization.
• Key metadata such as row count, file size, license, and author are consistently missing or listed as 'unknown' across all sources.
• Sources conflict on the specific time thresholds (e.g., 5, 10, 15, or 30 years) used for different grant schemes in the 2011/12 definition versus later versions.

Provenance

Source

Forestry Commission

Collection Method

Compiled from FC administrative data sources including grant schemes, felling licenses, and public estate records.

Time Range

References specific reporting periods ending 31 March for fiscal years 2011/12, 2018/19, and 2020/21.

Freshness

2026-06-29 22:10:10.099332

Geography

England