Planning consideration

National forest inventory

All forest and woodland area over 0.5 hectare with a minimum of 20% canopy cover, or the potential to achieve it

Work on this has been paused

The available data doesn't have a persistent ID for us to use as the reference. This would make it harder to track any changes that are made to entities.

We should reach out to the Forestry Commission to see if they can add one. See github discussion for more details.

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• Design stage: Co-design
• Tags:
  • constraint
  • bng
  • environmental
• Github: Join the discussion
• Synonyms: No synonyms added
• Legislation: No legislation added
• Tags:
  • constraint
  • bng
  • environmental

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• Expected number of records: 360,143
• Frequency of updates: Annually
• Useful links:
  • National dataset documentation page
• Technical specification: No specification added

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Background information

Each planning consideration we work on passes through the stages of our design process, where we research and answer specific questions to help us collect more information.

Read all the background information that we have on this consideration.

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2 updates

• Kieran Wint (16 April 2025)

  The available data doesn't have a persistent ID for us to use as the reference. This would make it harder to track any changes that are made to entities.

  We should reach out to the Forestry Commission to see if they can add one. See github discussion for more details.

• Kieran Wint (03 September 2024)

  The National Forest Inventory England 2022 dataset is updated annually.

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Last updated: 2024-09-03 14:27:46