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FPA-12874

Spottes House

Approved Felling Permission Application

Where

Woodland
Hatton Hill
Nearest town
Haugh of Urr
Local authority
Dumfries and Galloway Council
Conservancy
South Scotland Conservancy
Grid reference
NX803662

Official case map ↗ OpenStreetMap ↗

Key dates

  1. Application registered 16 September 2025
  2. Application accepted 16 September 2025
  3. Consultation opens 5 November 2025
  4. Consultation closes 4 November 2025
  5. Decision issued 5 November 2025
  6. Restocking due 30 June 2031

Area

Total area
0.02 ha
Conifer
0.01 ha
Broadleaf
0.02 ha

Official source

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FPA-12874

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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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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. First captured

    Status when first captured
    Approved

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
5 Nov 2025 – 31 Jan 2026
Felling area
0.02 ha
Estimated volume
0 m³
Proposed restocking
0.02 ha · 100% of felling licence

Species in felling operations

Beech Sitka spruce

Proposed restocking species

Beech Oak

Felling operations

Detailed proposed felling operations
Site/CptOperationSpeciesAreaAgeTreesVolumeMarking
Spottes Hse Felling Individual Trees Beech 0.02 ha 100 yr 7 n/a
Spottes Hse Felling Individual Trees Sitka spruce 0.01 ha 50 yr 2 n/a

Proposed restocking

Detailed proposed restocking operations
Site/CptProposalSpecies / land use% of siteAreaDensity / haTreesAlternative site
Spottes House Plant an alternative area Beech 80% 0.02 ha 1,600 Spottes House
Spottes House Plant an alternative area Oak 20% 0 ha 1,600 Spottes House

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 · NX 803 661

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

National soil map of Scotland

Mineral gleys

Map unit 440

Noncalcareous gleys

Soil association
Rhins
Parent material
Red brown clayey drifts containing Ordovician and Silurian greywacke stones
Landform
Drumlins and undulating lowlands with simple and complex gentle and strong slopes: slightly rocky
Soil mixture in this map unit

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

  • Rhins · 100% Noncalcareous gleys
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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.

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