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23FGS76353

Orchards

Approved Forestry Grant Scheme

Where

Nearest town
Kirkbean
Local authority
Dumfries and Galloway Council
Conservancy
South Scotland Conservancy
Grid reference
NX995577

Official case map ↗ OpenStreetMap ↗

Key dates

  1. Application registered 20 November 2023
  2. Application accepted 21 November 2023
  3. Consultation opens 22 November 2023
  4. Consultation closes 20 December 2023
  5. Decision issued 15 March 2024

Official source

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23FGS76353

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First archived 27 July 2026 · last seen on the register 27 July 2026.

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Protected places

Sites of Special Scientific Interest nearby

Within 2 km

Proximity is measured from the application grid-reference point to the official SSSI boundary. It does not prove that the wider application or property overlaps the designation; check the official maps before relying on it.

Site Designation Proximity Published area Geographic scope

Upper Solway Flats and Marshes

Site 1583

Official SiteLink record for Upper Solway Flats and Marshes
Designation MIXED Proximity 129 m away Published area 17,224.16 ha Geographic scope MIXED

Soils and forestry capability

At the application’s recorded location · NX 994 577

Source classifications from national 1:250,000 maps. Local conditions may vary.

National soil map of Scotland

Mineral gleys

Map unit 16

Noncalcareous gleys with brown earths

Soil association
Arbigland
Parent material
Drifts derived from Lower Carboniferous sandstones and shales, with some greywackes and granites
Landform
Broad ridge with gentle and strong slopes
Soil mixture in this map unit

Estimated map-unit proportions; the individual soils are not mapped within it.

  • Arbigland · 25% Noncalcareous gleys
  • New Mains · 25% Brown earths
  • Tallowquhairn · 25% Noncalcareous gleys
  • Canabony · 25% Noncalcareous gleys
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Land Capability for Forestry

F3 Good flexibility for trees

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Sources, licence and limitations

National soil map of Scotland ↗

National soil map of Scotland copyright and database right The James Hutton Institute 18 September 2024. Used with the permission of The James Hutton Institute. All rights reserved. Any public sector information contained in these data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v.2.0.

Dataset citation

Soil Survey of Scotland Staff (1981). Soil maps of Scotland at a scale of 1:250 000. Macaulay Institute for Soil Research, Aberdeen.

Land Capability for Forestry ↗

Land Capability for Forestry copyright and database right The James Hutton Institute 1988 (published map; last revision date not supplied). Used with the permission of The James Hutton Institute. All rights reserved. Any public sector information contained in these data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v.2.0.

Dataset citation

Soil Survey of Scotland Staff (1988). Land Capability for Forestry of Scotland at a scale of 1:250 000. Macaulay Land Use Research Institute, Aberdeen.

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These records describe the mapped point, not the whole property. Forestry capability is background information and does not establish planting permission or grant eligibility.

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Ordered by straight-line distance between each record's representative map point.

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Ordered by straight-line distance between each record's representative map point.