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Change description : 2025-12-10 08:51:00: Added information on the pause on felling licence applications for larch in zone 1, while we transition to a new felling licence system. [Guidance and regulation]

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Guidance

Processing felling applications involving larch species: operations note 23

Supplementary guidance on the treatment of larch species when processing felling applications through the Forestry Commission.

From:
Forestry Commission
Published
20 October 2017
Last updated
910 SeptemberDecember 2025 — See all updates

Applies to England

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Processing felling applications involving larch species (operations note 23)

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Larch trees infected with ‘Phytophthora ramorum’ produce spores that can spread the disease. To minimise the spread risk during felling operations, special precautions are needed when felling larch that are, or could be, infected.

Read the operations note guidance for details of the process for handling felling licence applications that include the felling or thinning of larch trees susceptible to the ‘P. ramorum’ infection.

Updates to this page

Published 20 October 2017
Last updated 910 SeptemberDecember 2025 + show all updates

  1. Added information on the pause on felling licence applications for larch in zone 1, while we transition to a new felling licence system.

  2. Updated operations note 23 with the latest guidance.

  3. Updated operations note 23 to version 10

  4. Update to new version providing the current situation on felling Larch.

  5. First published.

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Update history

2025-12-10 08:51
Added information on the pause on felling licence applications for larch in zone 1, while we transition to a new felling licence system.

2025-09-09 09:28
Updated operations note 23 with the latest guidance.