What is Thames Chase?


Creating New Woodlands

New woodlands are being created in a wide variety of ways; from small plantings around development sites to the recent large-scale plantings carried out by the Forestry Commission.

New woodlands are also being created on many of the mineral extraction and landfill sites found within Thames Chase. The planting is part of the planned restoration process, which will return the sites to publicly accessible, Community Forest landscapes.

Since 1990, over 1.3million new trees have been planted in Thames Chase - increasing the level of woodland from the 8% in 1990 to almost 13% now.
This equates to 472ha of new woodland planting.