Woodland Creation on Vacant and Derelict Land - Market Engagement

We previously engaged the market formally in November 2021. We are now presenting more detailed proposals for comment and feedback. This market engagement exercise seeks to test the scope, the services required and the contractual arrangements that will form the basis of the tender (to be published in later summer 2022). Also, it seeks to test whether a single organisation can fulfil the role of a Lead Delivery Partner, or whether multiple organisations are required to fulfil the brief. In short, this project aims to identify vacant, derelict and neglected land (owned by both private or public landowners) that is not suitable for housing or other development and to use public funding to ‘tip the balance’ with landowners in favour of woodland creation on this land, generating productive, beneficial spaces for communities that also improve biodiversity, sequester carbon and generate income.