# The Environmental Impact Assessment (Forestry) (England and Wales) Regulations 1999, Paragraph 2: Thresholds for identification of projects in Wales not likely to have significant effects on the environment

Extent: E+W

(1) For the purposes of regulation 3(3), and subject to regulations 6(3) and 7(6), a project in Wales of a type specified in an entry in Column 1 in the Table that is below the threshold (if any) specified in Column 2 or 3 of the Table, whichever is appropriate to the land covered, or proposed to be covered, by that project is to be treated as being not likely to have a significant effect on the environment.
(2) This paragraph applies subject to paragraph 3 of this Schedule.
TABLE
Column 1
Column 2
Column 3
Type of project or part of project
Threshold where any part of the land is in a sensitive area
Threshold where no part of the land is in a sensitive area
Afforestation
2 hectares, where the sensitive area is a National Park or Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
5 hectares.
No threshold in the case of other sensitive areas.
Deforestation
0.5 hectare, where the sensitive area is a National Park or Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
1 hectare.
No threshold in the case of other sensitive areas.
Forest road works
No threshold.
1 hectare.
Forest quarry works
No threshold.
1 hectare.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/2228/schedule/2/paragraph/2 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-impact-assessment-forestry-england-and-wales-regulations-1999/schedule-2/paragraph-2
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