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The Pennine Prospects Framework offers a comprehensive strategy for woodland creation, emphasizing its multiple benefits, including enhanced biodiversity, improved recreational spaces, and effective flood alleviation. By aligning local community needs with long-term sustainable visions, this framework positions woodland creation as a catalyst for economic growth and social inclusion. Key initiatives, partnerships, and funding strategies, including the RDPE program, play vital roles in this proactive strategy. Effective planning targets existing landscapes, enhances tree management, and ensures the integration of urban and rural ecological goals.
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Pennine Prospects A (suggested) Framework for Strategic Planning for Woodland Creation
Productive capacity Functional ecosystems Recreation and well- being Urban treescape Functional landscapes Landscape quality
Targeting woodland creation: realising the co-benefits Flood alleviation Shade/animal welfare Biodiversity/fisheries Soil erosion control Climate control
Wide range of existing trees and woodlands activity and initiatives e.g. : • White Rose Forest • Woodland Creation - Forestry and Flooding work • Woodland Management / Improvement activities • NE Ecosystems Services Pilot • Wide range of partners & partnership work What do the local communities need, aspire to…? Long term sustainable vision…? Funding – currently from RDPE but what about the next programme 2014…?
But this presentation suggests a Framework for Strategic and sustainable & holistic Planning for Woodland Creation
Using the Pennine Prospects Woodland Creation as a socio/economic catalyst… Economic Growth Social Inclusion
Initial (strategic) needs based assessment Targeted intervention’s… Need’s ‘truthing’ and augmenting on ground…
NW Woodland Carbon Taskforce Uplift Tool Assessment of Woodland Creation Potential
Pennine Prospects A (suggested) Framework for Strategic Planning for Woodland Creation Thanks & Questions?