The Environmental Statement highlights our plans for the site and the process we went through to help formulate our vision.
Please feel free to browse through the documents or why not visit one of roadshows around the local area throughout September.
If you have any problems opening any of the documents please contact us at heartwood@woodlandtrust.org.uk
A non-technical summary of the Environmental Statement can be read here.
Volume 1 - EIA process, the project and assessments
1 - Introduction
2 - The project
3 - Policy Context
4 - Historical and Cultural - Archaeological assessment
5 - Historical and Cultural - Landscape assessment
6 - Flora and fauna - Habitat and Species assessment
7 - Population and Access assessment
8 - Soils, Air and Water
9 - Summary of Main Impacts and Concept Design
List of Appendices:
Appendix 1 - Site location plan
Appendix 2 - Minutes from scoping meeting
Appendix 3 - Meetings and consultation events list and detail
Appendix 4 - Impacts and general comments received through stakeholders and wider consultation
Appendix 5 - Forestry Commission determination letter
Appendix 6 - Site plan showing roads
Appendix 7 - Aerial photo boundary with Nomansland common
Appendix 8 - Aerial view showing surrounding land use
Appendix 9 - Surrounding land use and cycling map
Appendix 10 - Farm Business Tenancy surrender plan
Appendix 11 - Phase 1 habitat survey map
Appendix 12 - Car parking assessment
Appendix 13 - Access track 1 specification
Appendix 14 - Access track 2 specification
Appendix 15 - Heartwood green access links
Appendix 16 - Services map
Appendix 17 - The Woodland Trust's view on food security and land use in the UK
Appendix 18 - Species list, Nomansland common
Appendix 19 - Woodand Trust Ancient Woodland position statement
Appendix 20 - Expanding our Horizons - Woodland Trust publication
Appendix 21 - Natural colonisation research paper
Appendix 22 - List of main contributors
Appendix 23 - Proposed Heartwood Forest design
Volume 2 - Archaeology surveys, full report and data
List of Appendices:
Appendix 1a - Archaeology Desk Based Assessent (DBA)
Appendix 1b - Archaeology DBA illustrations
Appendix 1c - Archaeology DBA plates
Appendix 1d - Archaeology DBA appendices
Appendix 2 - Archaeology auger survey
Appendix 3 - Magnetic susceptibility survey
Appendix 4 - Evaluation summary
Volume 3 - Landscape assessment full reports, Visitor number assessment and Highways report for main entrance
List of Appendices:
Appendix 1 - Landscape and visual impact assessment - baseline maps
Appendix 2 - Landscape and visual impact assessment - baseline viewpoints
Appendix 3 - Landscape and visual impact assessment - concept design and visualisations
Appendix 4 - Recreation and access demand assessment
Appendix 5 - Transport Statement
Appendix 6 - Road safety audit
Volume 4 - Wildlife survey data
List of Appendices:
Appendix 1 - Phase 1 survey
Appendix 2a - A breeding bird survey
Appendix 2b - Heartwood bird counts 2009
Appendix 3a - Butterfly Observations Heartwood Forest
Appendix 3b - Heartwood Forest Butterfly Records 2009
Appendix 3c - Heartwood Forest reccomendations Butterfly Conservation
Appendix 4 - Heartwood Forest Moth Records 2009-08-18
Notice of Submission of Environmental Statement
An application for consent under the Environmental Impact Assessment (Forestry) (England and Wales) Regulations (1999) has been made to the Forestry Commission for the creation of Heartwood Forest, near St Albans.
Copies of the application can be inspected at libraries in Harpenden and Wheathampstead and the Marshalswick Community Centre.
The application can also be viewed at the Forestry Commission office, East of England, Santon Downham, Brandon, Suffolk IP27 0TJ or online here. The head office of the Woodland Trust, Autumn Park, Dysart Road, Grantham NG31 6LL or online here.
Any comments about the application must be sent via post or email to the Forestry Commission within 28 days from the date of this advertisement: Heartwood Consultation, Forestry Commission, Santon Downham, Brandon, Suffolk, IP27 0TJ or fc.eeng.cons@forestry.gsi.gov.uk
The Forestry Commissioners may decide either to grant consent subject to the standard conditions required by Regulation 18 of the EIA Regulations, or subject to such further conditions as they see fit or refuse consent.