Speech House Walk and Ruardean Walk FP 2025-2035

Overview

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

The Forest Plans for Astonbridge Hill, Crabtree Hill and Serridge have all come up for renewal. 

We need your feedback 

We invite you or your organisation to leave some feedback on the proposals laid out within the rewrite of these Forest Plans.  Your feedback forms part of our consultation with stakeholders.  Ensuring that the consideration given to objectives and proposals achieve an appropriate balance.  

Why your views matter

Your feedback is important to us and will ensure the objectives are considered and balanced for the proposals being put forward in the fourth of six Forest Plans, following the publishing of Our Shared Forest in 2019.  This process has taken the opportunity to redefine the boundaries of Forest Plans covering the Forest of Dean (Main Block), that will see the consolidation of 24 Forest Plans to 6 Forest Plans. 

This progression will ensure a more holistic approach, with all six Forest Plans at a landscape scale.  This consultation is for the fourth of those six landscape scale plans.  It is the second largest, being called Speech House Walk and Ruardean Walk Forest Plan and covers around seven square miles.

It is also a requirement that Forestry England manages the Nations Forests to a quality that meets the high standards laid out in the UK Forestry Standard. In turn this ensures the management of the Nations Forests remains sustainable and compliant to the UK Woodland Assurance Standard.

Several documents are available to download below, and please note most are produced on A3, but should be scalable to print on A4 if needed. Note that if printing at A4, maps will not be to scale and some text may be too small or difficult to read.

This part of the consultation will run for 42 days (6 weeks).

STARTING: Friday 01st November 2024

CLOSING: Thurday 12th  December 2024

Any comments should be submitted through the online survey form before the closing date.

Feedback received after the closing date may not be considered.