The Forest of Avon Trust Offers professional consultancy services at very reasonable rates. These make use of the skills of Jon Clark a Chartered Landscape Architect and Planner, with twenty- five years experience in landscape planning, management and community forestry. Contact Jon for a summary of experience. The consultancy includes advice on:     

• Planning, designing & engaging the community in new woodlands;
• Costing & funding community woodlands;
• Planting & maintaining community woodlands;  
• Longer term management of new woodlands;
• Native trees and shrubs for the above, gardens and streets;
• Trees and woodlands as part of green infrastructure;
• How proposed development fits with the approved Forest of Avon Plan.

Where there are agreements with a local council or other organisation this advice may be free of charge.  

Planning Tools and Guides

The former Forest of Avon, working with partners, produced resources which are helpful to planning of green infrastructure: please see the links below.

Green Infrastructure Mapping: a new website created by the Forest of Avon and partners to show existing green infrastructure and areas in need of improvement in the West of England.

Planning Guide for Developers: downloadable pdf document for each local authority giving general guidance, relevant planning policies and useful contacts.

The Forest Plan: downloadable document in sections setting out the long-term vision for the creation and development of the Forest of Avon, and strategies for achieveing that vision.