Use this page to learn more about our Woodland Opportunity Mapping Tool and how to use it.
Our Woodland Opportunity Mapping Tool, developed for us by Consultants LUC, provides the evidence base that underpins our aspirations for doubling woodland cover by 2050 using the key principle of “Right tree/woodland, right place, right reason.”
The tool is presented as a Storymap, which shows how the mapping has been developed to provide interactive opportunity maps for different sizes of woodland. The mapping combines constraints, such as ecologically important sites and heritage sites, with an assessment of the effect of different scales of woodland planting on different landscape characters. This helps identify the right landscapes for the right type of woodland.