Grant application for chestnut grove restoration (Bando 2023)

The application for assistance for the 2023 call for proposals for the recovery of chestnut groves (private intervention) concerns the following types of intervention

A. RECOVERY AND/OR MAINTENANCE OF CHESTNUT GROVES FOR LANDSCAPE PURPOSES - MAXIMUM 8 TREES PER BENEFICIARY:

• A1. Recovery of historic chestnut trees in a state of abandonment through restoration pruning using tree climbing techniques. Pruning and removal of all woody material, alternatively with chipping on site;
• A2. Maintenance of historical chestnut trees with dry or damaged branches by means of restoration and/or rejuvenation pruning using tree climbing techniques. Pruning and removal of all woody material, alternatively with chipping in situ.

B. EVENTUAL REHABILITATION - SYSTEMATISATION of the area directly connected to the plant being supported:

• B1. REHABILITATION OF LAND UNDER historical chestnut trees that are in a state of abandonment through the cutting of the competing tree vegetation over an area of 200 square metres around the plant (circle with a radius of 8 metres), including the setting up and removal of all wood material, alternatively with chipping on site;
• B2. Slope improvement works with modest levelling and/or stump levelling and/or stump milling exclusively in correspondence with the recovered plants, sowing of all loose areas.

Applications may be submitted by natural or legal private persons who, on the date of submission, are the owners or holders of real rights, even for shares of the subject of the grant (land parcel or building).

Public bodies, private entities, private associations, consortia cannot apply.

The application for a grant, signed by the interested party, in order to comply with stamp duty (€16), must be submitted using the approved forms by one of the following methods

- paper application by hand delivery to the Town Planning and Landscape Protection Service in Trento, via Mantova, 67 - from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. - (telephone 0461 - 492712), or at the decentralised public assistance and information desks of the Autonomous Province of Trento

- transmission by electronic mail (certified or not) exclusively to the box serv.urbanistica@pec.provincia.tn.it, please note that attachments in compressed formats (e.g. ZIP) will NOT be accepted in accordance with the provincial directives on telematic communications

- transmission to the Town Planning and Landscape Protection Service by registered mail with return receipt, in which case the postmark of the accepting post office shall be considered as proof of receipt

The application must be submitted by the deadline under penalty of inadmissibility. Applications must be submitted from 2 October 2023 (00:00 hours) to 20 November 2023 (23:59:59 hours).

- Grant application form with revenue stamp

- Annex I (declaration for each applicant)

- Annex II (technical documentation)

- Annex III (colour photographic documentation)

- Annex IV (co-owners' proxy) - ONLY IF NECESSARY

- Annex V (privacy policy of all signatories)

- Annex VI (copy of a valid identity document of all signatories)