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FPA-11973

Balintore Castle Gate Lodges

Expired Felling Permission Application

Where

Nearest town
Kirriemuir
Local authority
Angus Council
Conservancy
Perth and Argyll Conservancy
Grid reference
NO295586

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Key dates

  1. Application registered 17 October 2024
  2. Application accepted 15 October 2024
  3. Consultation opens 17 December 2024
  4. Consultation closes 28 January 2025
  5. Decision issued 12 May 2025
  6. Restocking due Unknown

Area

Total area
0.02 ha
Broadleaf
0.02 ha

Official source

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FPA-11973

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First archived 9 July 2026 · last seen on the register 27 July 2026.

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

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Track changes

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  1. Standingwire added data from the PDF

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  2. First captured

    Status when first captured
    Expired

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
1 Feb 2025 – 31 Jan 2026
Felling area
0.02 ha
Estimated volume
88 m³
Proposed restocking
0.02 ha · 100% of felling licence

Species in felling operations

Scots pine Sycamore

Proposed restocking species

Crab apple Hazel Rowan Silver birch

Felling operations

Detailed proposed felling operations
Site/CptOperationSpeciesAreaAgeTreesVolumeMarking
1 Felling Individual Trees Sycamore 0.02 ha 82 yr 10 80 m³ string
1 Felling Individual Trees Scots pine 0 ha 60 yr 2 8 m³ string

Proposed restocking

Detailed proposed restocking operations
Site/CptProposalSpecies / land use% of siteAreaDensity / haTreesAlternative site
1 Plant alt. area with ind. trees Rowan 25% 0.01 ha 15 2, 3
1 Plant alt. area with ind. trees Crab apple 25% 0.01 ha 15 2, 3
1 Plant alt. area with ind. trees Hazel 25% 0.01 ha 15 2, 3
1 Plant alt. area with ind. trees Silver birch 25% 0.01 ha 15 2, 3
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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.

No SSSIs within 2 km.

Soils and forestry capability

At the application’s recorded location · NO 294 585

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

National soil map of Scotland

Mineral podzols

Map unit 503

Humus-iron podzols with peaty gleys

Soil association
Strichen
Parent material
Drifts derived from arenaceous schists and strongly metamorphosed argillaceous schists of the Dalradian Series
Landform
Hummocky valley moraines
Soil mixture in this map unit

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

  • Strichen · 85% Humus-iron podzols
  • Hythie · 15% Peaty gleys
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Land Capability for Forestry

F5 Limited 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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