Ancient woodland

(1) Please confirm whether your local authority owns, manages, or holds any freehold or leasehold interest in land classified as ancient woodland (including Ancient Semi-Natural Woodland and Planted Ancient Woodland Sites).

If so, please provide the following information:

(2) A list of each individual ancient woodland parcel in the authority's ownership or management.

For each parcel:

(2a) An indication of its size (in hectares, if available).

(2b) Its location (for example, site name, parish, and/or longitude-latitude reference).

(2c) Whether it is Ancient Semi-Natural Woodland (ASNW), Planted Ancient Woodland (PAW) or some combination thereof.

(2d) The total combined area of ancient woodland owned or managed by your authority.

(2e) If the information is held in map-based or GIS format, a summary table or extract would be sufficient.

(3) If any of the requested information is not held, please confirm this.

Lincoln Countryside do not have any land which includes ancient woodland.

For County farms, to check the whole estate could be a very time-consuming and costly exercise therefore an exemption has been applied, however Lincolnshire County Council believes that County Farms does not contain any ancient woodland.

Section 12(1) of the Freedom of Information 2000 does not oblige a public authority to comply with a request for information if the authority estimates that the cost of complying with the request would exceed the appropriate limit. The appropriate limit is currently £450 or 18 hours at a cost of £25 per hour.

The exemption under section 12 is not subject to the public interest test

Any refined request will be treated as a new request under the Freedom of Information Act.