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FPA-13612

Coulhill Wood

Under Consideration Felling Permission Application

Where

Woodland
Coulhill Wood
Nearest town
Alness
Local authority
Highland Council
Conservancy
Highland and Islands Conservancy
Grid reference
NH643703

Official case map ↗ OpenStreetMap ↗

Key dates

  1. Application registered 22 July 2026
  2. Application accepted 17 July 2026
  3. Consultation opens 20 August 2026
  4. Consultation closes 18 August 2026
  5. Decision issued Not yet

Official source

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FPA-13612

Find FPA-13612 on the official register ↗ Open applications can be commented on there during their consultation window.

First archived 18 August 2026 · last seen on the register 21 September 2026.

Contains Scottish Forestry information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

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The licence covers the register data; attached maps, images and applicant documents may have separate rights.

Track changes

Application status changes and data added by Standingwire, newest first. Status dates show when we recorded a change; the register may have changed earlier.

  1. Standingwire added data from the PDF

    Information from the application PDF is available below.

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  2. Status changed

    From
    Open For Comment
    To
    Under Consideration
  3. First captured

    Status when first captured
    Open For Comment

Earlier changes may not have been captured.

Forestry operations

Applicant-proposed operations extracted from the archived application form. Figures remain grouped as submitted and are not summed by species.

Felling window
20 Aug 2026 – 20 Aug 2028
Felling area
0 ha
Estimated volume
560 m³
Thinning area
17.1 ha
Thinning basis
Volume to be removed

Thinning operations

Representation: Volume to be removed.

Detailed proposed thinning operations
Site/CptSpeciesAreaVolume removed
1 Sitka spruce 5.5 ha 90 m³
1 Western hemlock 5.5 ha 150 m³
2 Sitka spruce 2 ha 120 m³
3 Sitka spruce 4.1 ha 200 m³

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

Alness River Valley

Site 51

Official SiteLink record for Alness River Valley
Designation BIOLOGICAL Proximity 671 m away Published area 28.19 ha Geographic scope TERRESTRIAL

Soils and forestry capability

At the application’s recorded location · NH 643 702

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

National soil map of Scotland

Mineral podzols

Map unit 97

Humus-iron podzols

Soil association
Corby
Parent material
Fluvioglacial and raised beach sands and gravels derived from acid rocks
Landform
Undulating lowlands with mounds and terraces with gentle slopes
Soil mixture in this map unit

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

  • Boyndie · 50% Humus-iron podzols
  • Corby · 50% Humus-iron podzols
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Land Capability for Forestry

F2 Very 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.

Nearby records

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Within 10 km
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Status Expired Distance 361 m away Area 1.26 ha Decision issued
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Highland

Status Expired Distance 640 m away Area 0.62 ha Decision issued
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Status Approved Distance 1.5 km away Area 0.12 ha Approved
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EVANTON

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Status Approved Distance 3.6 km away Area 0.06 ha Approved

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

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Within 10 km
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Status Approved Distance 6.8 km away Area 1.92 ha Approved
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Status Approved Distance 8.2 km away Area 143.6 ha Approved

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