Table 7.
Land availability and predicted ES impacts of planting of Miscanthus and SRC in different ALC for GB after filtering for planting scenarios (Lovett et al., 2014). For the baseline scenario much of the unallocated SRC planting is in Lancashire on Grade 1 or 2 land
| ES score | Baseline Miscanthus Hectares; (% of planting) | Ha per ES score | Baseline SRC Hectares; (% of planting) | Ha per ES score | 2020 Miscanthus Hectares; (% of planting) | Ha per ES score | 2020 SRC Hectares; (% of planting) | Ha per ES score | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total Planting | ≥0 | 169 171 | 168 508 | 88 407 | 87 691 | 350 263 | 348 805 | 112 870 | 112 087 |
| ≥20 | 69 020 | 19 858 | 133 101 | 39 923 | |||||
| ≥30 | 20 345 | 7469 | 36 670 | 18 307 | |||||
| Allocatable to Grade 4 | ≥0 | 40 517; (23.95) | 40 141 | 16 546; (18.72) | 16 188 | 74 017; (21.13) | 73 302 | 18 137; (16.07) | 17 712 |
| ≥20 | 6567 | 947 | 10 176 | 2181 | |||||
| ≥30 | 599 | 98 | 1154 | 551 | |||||
| Unallocated on Grade 4 | 128 654; (76.05) | 71 861; (81.28) | 276 246; (78.87) | 94 733; (83.93) | |||||
| Remainder Allocated to Grade 3 | ≥0 | 106 575; (63.00) | 106 442 | 55 959; (63.30) | 55 702 | 220 295; (62.89) | 219 945 | 73 927; (65.50) | 73 606 |
| ≥20 | 49 879 | 10 667 | 90 553 | 25 356 | |||||
| ≥30 | 15 077 | 2021 | 23 652 | 10 015 | |||||
| Unallocated on Grades 3 and 4 | ≥0 | 22 079; (13.05) | 21 925 | 15 902; (17.99) | 15 801 | 55 951; (15.97) | 55 558 | 20 806; (18.43) | 20 769 |
| ≥20 | 12 574 | 8244 | 32 372 | 12 386 | |||||
| ≥30 | 4669 | 5350 | 11 864 | 7741 |