This consultation exercise seeks to draw on the views, insights and experience of landowners, land managers and the people of Scotland in the further development of grant support for forestry post-2025 and into the future.

It will help shape the implementation of the broad powers that will be provided through the Agricultural Bill when it replaces the current legislative framework provided by the Scotland Rural Development Programme.

The consultation is focused specifically on the development of grant support rather than any of the broader range of mechanisms that support delivery of Scottish Government’s outcomes and the Scottish Forestry Strategy, such as policy and regulatory measures.

How to respond

You can access and respond to this consultation online on our consultation hub.

If you are unable to respond using our consultation hub, please complete the Respondent Information Form and send to:

FGS Consultation
Scottish Forestry
Silvan House
231 Corstorphine Road
Edinburgh, EH12 7AT

We are inviting responses to this consultation by 17 May 2023.

Please ensure that consultation responses are submitted before the closing date of 17 May 2023.