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FPA-11897

Dirnow Forest

Approved Felling Permission Application

Where

Woodland
Compartment 64
Nearest town
Newton Stewart
Local authority
Dumfries and Galloway Council
Conservancy
South Scotland Conservancy
Grid reference
NX299678

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Key dates

  1. Application registered 9 September 2024
  2. Application accepted 3 September 2024
  3. Consultation opens 19 September 2024
  4. Consultation closes 17 October 2024
  5. Decision issued 24 October 2024
  6. Restocking due Unknown

Area

Total area
0.35 ha
Conifer
0.35 ha

Official source

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FPA-11897

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

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Track changes

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  2. First captured

    Status when first captured
    Approved

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Forestry operations

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

Felling window
4 Oct 2024 – 4 Oct 2026
Felling area
0.35 ha
Estimated volume
105 m³
Proposed restocking
0.35 ha · 100% of felling licence

Species in felling operations

Sitka spruce

Felling operations

Detailed proposed felling operations
Site/CptOperationSpeciesAreaAgeTreesVolumeMarking
64 Selective Felling Sitka spruce 0.35 ha 525 105 m³

Proposed restocking

Detailed proposed restocking operations
Site/CptProposalSpecies / land use% of siteAreaDensity / haTreesAlternative site
Cpt 64 I do not intend to restock 100% 0.35 ha
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Protected places

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Within 2 km

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Soils and forestry capability

At the application’s recorded location · NX 298 678

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

National soil map of Scotland

Peat

Map unit 215

Dystrophic semi-confined peat with peaty rankers

Soil association
Ettrick
Parent material
Drifts derived from Lower Paleozoic greywackes and shales
Landform
Valley floors and lowlands with rock knolls and moundy moraines: complex gentle slopes
Soil mixture in this map unit

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

  • Semi-confined peat · 85% Dystrophic semi-confined peat
  • ETTRICK(PRANK) · 15% Peaty rankers
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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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Ordered by straight-line distance between each record's representative map point.