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ARCHIVED: FC East of England

This agreement is no longer applicable and must not be used.

Agreement Type:

Allowed

Landowner

Forestry Commission England
nicky.russell@forestry.gsi.gov.uk
Nicky Russell
Thetford Forest Park Recreation Ranger

Note that the FC only manages some land and in these cases, permission will be required from the landowner.

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Description

The Forestry Commission (FC) East of England is adopting, on a trial basis, a new permissions system for the sport of Geocaching. From the 1 June 2010, FC East of England will allow caches to be placed on its CROW dedicated landholding in the East of England without charge or written permission subject to compliance with the following conditions.

1. Permission to place caches is limited to dedicated "open access" Forestry Commission woodland in the East of England (https://www.forestry.gov.uk/eastengland). Current OS Explorer maps show open access woodland and further information on open access land may be found at: Natural England website.

2. No vehicle access is permitted beyond the public highway or dedicated parking places. Vehicles must be parked sensibly and must not block forest entrances as these provide emergency access to the forest.

3. The vast majority of the Forestry Commission�s land holding in the East of England is dedicated as a SSSI and SPA for ground nesting birds. To avoid disturbance and potential prosecution, caches should not be placed on open ground, woodland areas where the trees are less than 5m in height or more than 5m away from a ride edge.

4. To help protect archaeological features caches should not be placed on Scheduled Ancient Monuments (SAMS). Information on the location of SAMS is available at: this website

5. Caches must not be placed in potential bat roosts, for example in tree crevices.

6. The Forestry Commission may close areas of the forest from time to time for forest operations and recreation events and these will be notified on the Open Access website (see Section 1); Geocachers must observe all warning and prohibition signs. The Forestry Commission East of England is not in a position to inform individual placers of pending Forestry Operations and caches are left at the risk of the placer.

7. Placers and finders must comply with GAGB Geocachers Code of Practice and GAGB Guidelines and Forestry Commission Byelaws

Compliance will be monitored by the FC East of England team through random checks of registered locations. Note that Geocache events require written permission and will be subject to the standard recreation permission and charging process.

Application Process

Caches may be placed in line with these requirements and the FC will visit caches to ensure that they are in suitable locations and meet the guidelines.

ALL applications for events be they full or standard must be received at least 8 weeks prior to event date. Any received outside of this time scale will not be given permission.

Area Covered

England/Bedfordshire. England/Cambridgeshire. England/Essex. England/Hertfordshire. England/Norfolk. England/Suffolk.

Last Modified

21st Nov 2018.

Archived

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