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Read about the LATF payments process in the Local Authority Treescapes Fund grant manual.

You must submit your claim during the submission period, read more about when you can apply.

Submit a LATF claim using these forms:

• LATF claim form (LATF claim 1 and claim 3)
• LATF post-planting report and claim (LATF claim 2 and claim 4)
• LATF maintenance claim form (made annually for 3 years following each year of planting)

You must include a signed non-RDPE claims declaration form with your claim.

When you have completed the appropriate forms, please send these toLATF@forestrycommission.gov.uk.

Claims deadlines 2024-25

Round 4 deadlines

Pre-planting claim 1 should be submitted upon receipt of a formal LATF Offer of Funding and must be submitted before midnight on 31 March 2025.

Post-planting claim 2 must be submitted once year 1 planting is complete and before midnight on 31 March 2025.

Round 3 year 2 planting deadlines

Pre-planting claim 3 should be submitted after 1 April 2024 and must be submitted before midnight on 31 March 2025.

Post-planting claim 4

Post-planting claim 4 must be submitted before midnight on 31 March 2025.

Maintenance claims

Maintenance claims (rounds 1-3) must be submitted before midnight on 31 March 2025.

Maintenance claims (rounds 1-3) must be submitted between 1 October 2024 and 31 March 2025 (by midnight).

Round 1 final maintenance claims

Round 1 final maintenance claims (for year 1 trees) must be submitted by 31 March 2025.

Download the beat-up survey form to accompany this claim. The survey must be done during the 2024 growing season, and any replacements planted in the winter (and before the claim is submitted by 31 March). See the beat-up survey guidance for help completing the survey form.

You can also request a beat-up survey form from LATF@forestrycommission.gov.uk.