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Felling licences
 Trees and woodlands are important features of the English landscape, none more so in North West England. From a large conifer forest in Cumbria to smaller copse in Greater Manchester each one is often valued highly by local people or may be important for wildlife.
To help protect England's forests and trees, a felling licence from the Forestry Commission may be required to carry out felling operations. Please notethat it is an offence to fell trees without a licence if an exemption does not apply. The overall process is described in the Quick Guide and full details are available in the booklet Tree Felling - Getting Permission (PDF 1748kb) or for more details visit our England Felling Licences In addition to a felling licence you will need to consider whether your proposals are effected by other legislation mentioned below. The EIA (Forestry) Regulations are concerned with relevant projects in the following categories: Initial afforestation, Deforestation, Forest roads and Forest quarries. A number of changes have been made to Habitats Regulations that increase the legal protection given to protected species wherever they are found in England. Several of the species covered by the Regulations are found in woodland, and it therefore has implications for how woodlands are managed and forestry operations carried out.
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