Guidance: High Speed 2 (HS2) rail – impacts on woodland management activity: operations note 47

7 page summary providing information on:

  • HS2 – Glossary, and phases of work
  • Legislation
  • HS2 – Has permission to fell trees (Phase 1)
  • Landowner – Has a felling licence to fell trees
  • Landowner – Restocking conditions after felling
  • Landowner – Applying for a felling licence
  • Landowner – Has grant agreement for woodland creation
  • Landowner – Plans new woodland creation
  • HS2 – Plans new woodland creation
  • HS2 Phases route map



Guidance: Assessment of potential wildfire risk resulting from planned deforestation to open habitat: operations note 40

26 page summary offering:

  • Purpose
  • Background
  • Context – Policy and regulation
  • Planning for wildfire
  • Preparing a Wildfire Management Plan (WMP)
  • FC review of wildfire planning
  • Contacting Fire and Rescue authorities
  • Sources of further advice
  • Wildfire management plan – minimum requirements
  • Wildfire risk assessment template
  • Wildfire risk and hazard checklist
  • Example wildfire risk assessment
  • Stakeholders for wildfire planning
  • Template letter to Fire and Rescue Service



Official Statistics: RHI deployment data: August 2018

Monthly statistics for the Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) programme present the number of applications and accredited installations on the non-domestic and domestic schemes so far.




Official Statistics: Rural deprivation statistics

Updated: Minor amendments to the wording on page 1 to improve the clarity of the text.

Deprivation indicator for people living in rural and urban areas based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation (IMD).

Metadata

Data source: Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG), English Indices of Deprivation (2015), Index of Multiple Deprivation (2015)

Coverage: England

Rural classification used: Office for National Statistics Rural Urban Classification

Next release date: tbc

Defra statistics: rural

You can also contact us via Twitter: https://twitter.com/DefraStats




National Statistics: Household Energy Efficiency National Statistics, headline release September 2018

his release includes measures installed under the Energy Company Obligation (ECO) and the Green Deal schemes. It also includes further analysis and geographical breakdowns of ECO measures, ECO delivery costs, estimated carbon and energy savings from measures installed and the supply chain. These statistics are provisional and are subject to future revisions.