Hedgerows
Hedgerows offer numerous benefits, including improving landscape aesthetics and air quality, reducing soil erosion and flooding, enhancing biodiversity, and providing shelter for livestock.
If you would like to plant a new native species hedgerow, you can submit an application.
Once you have submitted your application, we will be able to advise you on hedgerow planting, species mix, management and also the funding options best suited to your site. We are working in partnership with the Woodland Trust.
As part of the LincWoods project strategy to extend the network of hedgerows across Lincolnshire, we may be able to offer free native hedgerow planting schemes to:
- parish councils
- voluntary groups
- private landowners
- farmers around the county
Applications for hedgerows in private gardens will not be accepted. Applicants must be able to plant the hedging between November 2025 and March 2026 and agree to keep the area around the hedging plants weed free for three years and not remove the hedgerow for 25 years.
We will only be offering small sized hedge plants up to a maximum height of 60 to 90 centimetres with the appropriate protection.
All schemes will be scored according to their wildlife and landscape benefits and proposed maintenance. Should more applications be received than our funding allows, only the highest scoring schemes will be awarded trees.
Please submit your application before 1 December 2025.
