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FPA-6397

Blinkbonny Farm

Expired Felling Permission Application

Where

Woodland
Cpts 1,2,3 & 4
Nearest town
Kelso
Local authority
Scottish Borders Council
Conservancy
South Scotland Conservancy Area Office
Grid reference
NT668384

Official case map ↗ OpenStreetMap ↗

Key dates

  1. Application registered 17 April 2019
  2. Application accepted 17 April 2019
  3. Consultation opens 23 April 2019
  4. Consultation closes 21 May 2019
  5. Decision issued 29 May 2019

Area

Total area
3.71 ha
Conifer
2.74 ha
Broadleaf
0.97 ha

Official source

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FPA-6397

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First archived 27 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

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. First captured

    Status when first captured
    Expired

Earlier changes may not have been captured.

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

Lurgie Loch

Site 1113

Official SiteLink record for Lurgie Loch
Designation BIOLOGICAL Proximity 999 m away Published area 11.7 ha Geographic scope TERRESTRIAL

Soils and forestry capability

At the application’s recorded location · NT 667 383

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

National soil map of Scotland

Brown soils

Map unit 464

Brown earths

Soil association
Smailholm
Parent material
Drifts derived from Lower Carboniferous basaltic lavas and Upper Old Red Sandstone sediments
Landform
Undulating lowlands with gentle and strong slopes
Soil mixture in this map unit

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

  • Smailholm · 100% Brown earths
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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.