Woodland Grant Scheme 2

The Woodland Grant Scheme (WGS) provided incentives for people to create and manage woodlands on sites all over Great Britain. The Forestry Commission (now Scottish Forestry) paid grants for establishing and looking after woodlands and forests.

To qualify for grant the applicant had to meet the standards of environmental protection and practice set out in the Forestry Commission’s guidelines at that time.

WGS2 operated between June 1991 and September 1994. It was replaced by WGS3

Updates to scheme boundaries and grant aided areas were incorporated into the dataset on a regular basis until the end of 2012. No further changes will be made after this time.

 
Citation proposal
. Woodland Grant Scheme 2. Scottish Forestry https://services.mspdata.eu:/geonetwork/srv/api/records/1AF10412-6214-46D3-A39F-0F99705B7335

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Alternate title
FCPRODUCT.S_WGS2
Date ( Creation )
1997-09-01
Date ( Revision )
2012-05-04
Identifier
FCPRODUCT.S_WGS2
Presentation form
mapDigital Digital map

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Maintenance and update frequency
notPlanned Not planned
Keywords
  • Forest Management , Grant Schemes , Planning , Environment , Felling , Landscape , Woodland , Licence , Ownership , Forestry , WGS
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 ( Theme )
  • Land use
Access constraints
otherRestrictions Other restrictions
Other constraints
No limitations on public access
Use limitation

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.

Spatial representation type
vector Vector
Denominator
10000
Metadata language
eng English
Topic category
  • Farming
  • Biota
  • Economy
  • Environment
Geographic identifier
GB-SCT

 

Date ( Publication )
2007-12-13

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Reference system identifier
EPSG / OSGB 1936 / British National Grid (EPSG:27700) / 7.9
Distribution format
  • ESRI Shapefile (1.0 )

  • WMS (1.3.0 )

OnLine resource
Scottish Forestry Open Data  

Data download site

OnLine resource
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Woodland Grant Scheme 2

Hierarchy level
dataset Dataset
Statement

The spatial element of this dataset was digitised by Scottish Forestry's Geo-Information Services using both Laserscan's LAMPS and ESRI's ArcView software. The textual element was extracted from the WGS Oracle database using Business Objects and associated with the polygon data.

Information was mapped following final approval stage from contract maps supplied by the applicants (normally based on 1:2500 or 1:10,000 OS maps).

Spatial data was digitised against OS raster backdrops using 1:25,000 scale between 1997 and 2000, and 1:10,000 scale between 2000 and 2004.

Updates to scheme boundaries and grant aided areas were incorporated into the dataset on a regular basis until the end of 2012. No further changes will be made after this time.

Contents of the dataset:

The dataset identifies areas approved by grant type within each WGS scheme boundary. The list below provides a summary of the grant types captured:

SCHEME BOUNDARY -

The boundary of the area(s) included within the scheme (contract).

NEW PLANTING APPROVED -

Areas within the contract where new planting has been approved under NP, NB, NS, NC, NK, NX and/or NY.

NEW NATURAL REGENERATION APPROVED -

Areas within the contract where new natural regeneration has been approved under NN, NL and/or NZ.

REPLANTING/REGENERATION/MANAGEMENT -

Areas within the contract where replanting, restocking by natural regeneration or management has been approved under RP, RN, RC RG,RQ, EN, MG and/or SM.

COMMUNITY WOODLAND CONTRIBUTION -

Areas within the contract approved for Community Woodland Contribution. CWC is available to encourage the creation of new woodlands near towns and cities which can be used for informal recreation.

The following lists the abbreviations used above:

NP New planting

NB New planting with better land supplement

NS New planting accepted into the 1988 set-aside scheme

NC New planting of coppice

NK New planting of coppice with better land supplement

NQ New planting short rotation coppice

NU New planting short rotation coppice with better land supplement

NN New planting by natural regeneration

NL New planting by natural regeneration with better land supp

NZ New planting by natural regeneration with set-aside

RP Restocking by replanting

RC Restocking with coppice (planting not regrowth)

RQ Restocking with short rotation coppice (planting not regrowth)

RN Restocking by natural regeneration

EN Restocking by existing natural regeneration

MG Management grant

SM Special management grant

Dataset Attributes:

FEATDESC Description of identified feature

PROPNO Property number

PLANNO Plan number

PROPNAME Property name

PLAN_TYPE Type of plan (Management, Establishment, Both)

PROP_TYPE Property type (Farm, Recreation, etc)

OWNER_TYPE Owner type (Business, Personal Occupier, etc)

GRID_REF National grid reference (NS987435)

LOCAL_AUTH Council (eg. Highland Council)

CWSPREM Is the scheme eligible for CWS (Y/N)

FWPSPREM Is the scheme eligible for FWPS (Y/N)

CNT_START Date the contract started

CNT_END Date the contract ends

CONS_NAME Conservancy name

CON_AREA Total conifer planting under work type (ha)

BL_AREA Total broadleaf planting under work type (ha)

PCEN_CON Percentage conifer planting under work type

PCEN_BL Percentage broadleaf planting under work type

CON_UNPD Conifer area still to receive 1st Inst (ha)

BL_UNPD Broadleaf area still to receive 1st Inst (ha)

PC_C_UNPD Percentage conifer still to receive 1st Inst

PC_BL_UNPD Percentage broadleaf still to receive 1st Inst

TOT_AREA Total area of work type within scheme

Metadata

File identifier
1AF10412-6214-46D3-A39F-0F99705B7335   XML
Metadata language
eng English
Character set
utf8 UTF8
Hierarchy level
dataset Dataset
Date stamp
2020-01-31
Metadata standard name
ISO 19115:2003/19139
Metadata standard version
1.0

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