[2] It provides a window to a period of history when trees and woods were integral to everyday life for firewood, building material and food.
The Woodland Trust believed that the public outcry that stopped those plans revealed the connection people feel to the woods and trees of the UK.
[4] The Independent Panel on Forestry wrote in its 2011 Report:[5] A Charter should be created for the English Public Forest Estate, to be renewed every ten years.
The new Tree Charter document will not be legally binding, but more a set of guiding principles, to which politicians, organizations, community groups and individuals can be held to account.
[citation needed] The Tree Charter will be a document which can be used to hold politicians, community groups and organizations to account, backed up by the body of evidence of over 60,000 public stories.