Thanks to the RFS for this update:
Changes to woodland grants in Wales
The Better Woodlands for Wales (BWW) woodland grant scheme, which is delivered
by Forestry Commission Wales (FCW) will close with effect from 1 January 2011.
Instead, woodland grants will be integrated into Glastir, the Welsh Assembly
Government’s new sustainable land management scheme.
However, woodland creation grants will continue to be delivered by FCW until
1 January 2013, via Glastir.
Research has shown that the BWW scheme had not attracted enough farmers to
manage their woodlands or to plant new ones. This is unfortunate, given that farmers
own most of the plantable land in Wales.
Details of the FCW announcement, made by Wales’ rural affairs minister, Elin Jones,
are at www.forestry.gov.uk/wales.