Edgehills and Wigpool Forest Plan

Overview

The forest plan for Edgehills and Wigpool in the Forest of Dean is due for renewal.

Forest plans define Forestry England's long-term vision for a woodland or a collection of woodlands, and set out how our management will move towards achieving this vision over the next ten years.

Edgehills and Wigpool is one of six landscape-scale forest plan areas identified in the Forest of Dean's land management plan, Our Shared Forest, which was published in 2019.

We would like to invite you or your organisation to leave some feedback on our proposed revision to the Edgehills and Wigpool Forest Plan, which is available to download in PDF format at the bottom of this page (under the heading 'Related').

Why your views matter

As part of the forest planning process, we carry out consultation with internal and external stakeholders, to ensure that the objectives of the plan are balanced appropriately, and to meet the requirements of the UK Woodland Assurance Standard, through which our woodlands are accredited.

This online consultation will be available until Sunday 1st December 2024.

We will summarise the feedback and our responses by the end of January 2025 in the 'We asked, You said, We did' area. Your comments will be anonymous - you can choose to leave your name, but we won't include it in our summary.

What happens next

Once this online stakeholder engagement has closed, we will examine the feedback and where appropriate, will incorporate suggestions into the forest plan. We will summarise the feedback on the 'We asked, You said, We did' page.

We will then submit the forest plan to the regulatory arm of the Forestry Commission for approval.