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Guidance: Tree health pilot scheme 2024

Forestry Commission

May 1
12:19 2024

The tree health pilot (THP) scheme is testing different ways of slowing the spread of pests and diseases affecting trees in England.

It expands on support available through the Countryside Stewardship Woodland Tree Health grant.

There are grants available for:

  • larch trees with Phytophthora ramorum
  • spruce trees affected by Ips typographus
  • sweet chestnut trees with Phytophthora ramorum or sweet chestnut blight
  • oak trees with oak processionary moth (OPM)
  • ash trees with ash dieback

Read the documents to check what the grants cover and whos eligible to apply.

The pilot will help develop the future funding policy for tree health schemes.

Application forms

Published 16 February 2024
Last updated 1 May 2024 +show all updates
  1. Restocking maintenance payments changed from 350 per hectare each year for 5 years to 400.Also, 'What land is eligible' section updated in 'Who can apply and what land is eligible'. It now includes spruce with either a Statutory Plant Health Notice (SPHN) for eight-toothed spruce bark beetle (Ips typographus) or that are growing in the high risk demarcated area.

  2. Grants for ash with ash dieback - payment rate has changed for trees in woodland:Maintenance (per year for 3 years) has changed from 350 to 400 per ha.

  3. First published.

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