§ Mr. Ron Daviesasked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will name, by county, those deciduous woodlands, which have been (a) clearfelled and replanted with conifers and (b) clearfelled for agriculture under the terms of a Forestry commission licence since January 1984.
§ Mr. John MacKay[pursuant to his reply, 18 April 1985, c. 249]; The information is not available in the form requested as the Forestry Commission does not normally monitor teh situation on the ground after granting a felling licence, unless replanting conditions are involved and these conditions are due to have been fulfilled. I can, however, list the woodlands for which licences were issued during the period 1 January 1984 to 31 March 1985; these are as follows:
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Name County/Region (a) Broadleaved woodland licensed for clearfelling and replanting with confifers: Bolderton Drive Cheshire Woods at Warren Lane Berkshire (b) Broadleaved woodland licensed for clearfelling for conversion of the land to agriculture: Peacocks Field Plantation North Yorkshire Three Cornered Covert Suffolk Goldsmith's Covert Suffolk Woodlands on Bliss Estate Suffolk Woodlands on Moat Farm Suffolk Dunholme Holt Lincolnshire Saddle Copse Oxfordshire Spinney on Road Farm Buckinghamshire Sidehill Wood Hertfordshire Brick Kiln Covert Norfolk Hill Eight Acres Norfolk Woods on Salle Park Norfolk Common Plantation Norfolk The Whins Norfolk High Plantation Norfolk Woodlands on Saxlingham Estate Norfolk Woodlands on Glebe Farm Norfolk Woodlands on Rogers Estate Norfolk The Mound Northamptonshire The Hangings Essex Part of Bear Gill Wood Surrey Woodlands at Coldharbour Surrey Willow Wood Kent Horton Kirby Wood Kent Woodlands at Dover Castle Kent Staples Hill Copse Sussex Humbers Wood Hampshire Mews Wood Hampshire Part of Stubbs Copse Hampshire Part of Fishers Pond Wood Hampshire Woods on Rookesbury Farm Hampshire Woods on Cleve Farm Devon Woods on West Wheetley Farm Devon Woods on Langford Farm Devon Woods on West Walton Devon Woodlands at Hayne Bardon Devon Woods on Osborne's Farm Devon Woods on Barah Farm Cornwall Culkive Woods Cornwall Woods on Whitehouse Farm Gloucestershire Collins Grove Gloucestershire Woods on Melcombe Farm Dorset Woods on Manor Farm Shropshire Bolas Wood Shropshire Birch Wood Lothian Broad Wood Strathclyde Coed Faenol Bropor Wood Clwyd Woods on Lower Cwm Tydu Farm Powys Woods on Coed Coedn Farm Powys Woods on Home Farm Powys Highgate Wood Powys Woodlands on Caethugley Estate Powys Blacksmiths Wood Powys Fron Wood Powys Treowen Woods Gwent Gaer House Wood Gwent Woodlands on Ty Uchaf Farm Gwent Woodlands on Cwm Nosydd Farm Gwent Allt Tanteg Wood Dyfed The total area under (a) was 2.1 hectares; the total area under (b) was 125.5 hectares of which one woodland of 17 hectares comprised a crop of poplar grown for matchwood.
Twenty-eight broadleaved woodlands were licensed for clearfelling for conversion to agriculture during the period January to March 1984; 31 woodlands were covered by such licences during the following 12 months.