Under the government's new Rural Strategy 2004 responsibility for strategic policy on forestry in England will transfer to Defra while the Forestry Commission becomes fully responsible for community forestry around towns and will increase its role insupporting the creation of new woodlands on farms. In the delivery of incentives, regulation and advice, the Forestry Commission will work in partnership with the new "Integrated Agency" as it evolves over the next few years. These changes have no direct impact on the arrangements for managing the public forest estate by Forest Enterprise England.
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