Forestry Statistics 2011 - Woodland Areas and Planting

Land use

Woodland accounted for 79% of all Forestry Commission/ Forest Service land in the UK in 2011. This proportion was highest in Wales (92%) and lowest in Scotland (74%).

Table 1.5 Land use of the FC and FS, 2007-2011
Year (ending 31/3)	England	Wales	Scotland	Northern Ireland	UK
thousand hectares
Woodland
2007	202	107	457	61	827
2008	202	106	452	61	821
2009	201	105	447	61	814
2010 (original)	199	105	443	61	809
2010 (revised)¹	216	114	485	61	876
2011	214	114	481	61	870
Other land²
2007	55	18	210	14	297
2008	56	18	215	14	304
2009	57	19	219	14	309
2010 (original)	57	19	217	14	308
2010 (revised)¹	40	10	175	14	240
2011	40	10	174	14	238
Total FC/ FS land area
2007	257	124	666	76	1 124
2008	258	124	667	76	1 125
2009	258	124	665	76	1 123
2010	257	124	660	75	1 116
2011	254	124	654	75	1 108

Source: Forestry Commission, Forest Service.

Notes:

1. 2011 and 2010 (revised) figures for the breakdown of Forestry Commission land use is estimated from GIS data for Forestry Commission land and the National Forest Inventory (NFI) map, to give figures that are consistent with the definition of woodland used in the NFI. This differs from the previous methodology for estimating Forestry Commission woodland area that excluded integral open space and excluded land recently converted to other land uses.

2. 'Other land' includes agricultural land and areas of moorland and mountain.

Links to Forestry Statistics 2011

Sources: Woodland area

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