Woodland Creation formed part of the Scottish Rural
Development Programme (SRDP) 2007 - 2013. This SRDP was a programme of
economic, environmental and social measures, utilising some €680m of European
Agricultural Fund for Rural Development funding plus Scottish Government match
funding. This programme was designed to support rural Scotland from 2007 to 2013.
Individuals and groups were able to seek funding to help deliver the
Government's strategic objectives in rural Scotland.
Woodlands are a vital sustainable natural resource and
funding aims to encourage the creation of new woodlands with grants that will
contribute to the cost of their establishment.
Within Rural Priorities there are eight woodland creation
options.
Productive conifer woodland (low cost)Productive conifer woodland (high cost)Productive broadleaved woodlandNative WoodlandsNaturally regenerated native woodlandMixed conifer/broadleaf woodlandNorthern & Western Isles Native WoodlandCentral Scotland Mixed Woodland
The woodland creation polygons in this dataset represent the
areas which have been approved for new planting. Data is captured by the
woodland creation option type and by the year the planting is intended to take
place (claim year).
A boundary which encompasses all the new planting options
and claim years within a specific case is available in the Woodland Creation
Boundary RDC dataset.
For more detailed information please see the metadata record on
Scotland's SpatialData.gov.scot Metadata Portal.