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FPA-12746

Gowrie Cottage

Approved Felling Permission Application

Where

Nearest town
Abernethy
Local authority
Perth and Kinross Council
Conservancy
Perth and Argyll Conservancy
Grid reference
NO182156

Official case map ↗ OpenStreetMap ↗

Key dates

  1. Application registered 24 July 2025
  2. Application accepted 6 July 2025
  3. Consultation opens 25 July 2025
  4. Consultation closes 22 August 2025
  5. Decision issued 3 September 2025
  6. Restocking due 15 May 2030

Area

Total area
0.05 ha
Broadleaf
0.05 ha

Official source

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FPA-12746

Find FPA-12746 on the official register ↗ Open applications can be commented on there during their consultation window.

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
24 Jul 2025 – 31 Aug 2026
Felling area
0.05 ha
Estimated volume
5.6 m³
Proposed restocking
0.05 ha · 100% of felling licence

Species in felling operations

Sycamore

Proposed restocking species

Alder Downy birch Hazel Rowan Scots pine Silver birch

Felling operations

Detailed proposed felling operations
Site/CptOperationSpeciesAreaAgeTreesVolumeMarking
1 Felling Individual Trees Sycamore 0.05 ha 35 yr 1 5.6 m³ n/a

Proposed restocking

Detailed proposed restocking operations
Site/CptProposalSpecies / land use% of siteAreaDensity / haTreesAlternative site
1 Replant felled area Scots pine 16.67% 0.01 ha 100
1 Replant felled area Alder 16.67% 0.01 ha 100
1 Replant felled area Silver birch 16.67% 0.01 ha 100
1 Replant felled area Downy birch 16.67% 0.01 ha 100
1 Replant felled area Rowan 16.67% 0.01 ha 100
1 Replant felled area Hazel 16.65% 0.01 ha 100

Tree health

Statutory Plant Health Notices nearby

Within 5 km

Notices are ordered with polygons covering the application grid-reference point first, followed by the nearest notices with current ones prioritised. Distances are measured to the notice boundary. A nearby notice does not by itself mean that it applies to the site.

Notice / host species Status Proximity Issued Compliance date Biosecurity expiry

STH18_2012-13

P. ramorum

Hosts: Larch

Status Closed Proximity 2.0 km away Issued Not published Compliance date Not published Biosecurity expiry Not published

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

Turflundie Wood

Site 8160

Official SiteLink record for Turflundie Wood
Designation BIOLOGICAL Proximity 1.4 km away Published area 86.59 ha Geographic scope TERRESTRIAL

Carey

Site 315

Official SiteLink record for Carey
Designation GEOLOGICAL Proximity 1.6 km away Published area 0.76 ha Geographic scope MIXED

Soils and forestry capability

At the application’s recorded location · NO 181 155

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

National soil map of Scotland

Brown soils

Map unit 479

Brown earths

Soil association
Sourhope
Parent material
Drifts derived from Old Red Sandstone intermediate lavas
Landform
Lowlands and hill sides with gentle to very steep slopes: moderately rocky
Soil mixture in this map unit

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

  • Sourhope · 100% Brown earths
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Land Capability for Forestry

F6 Very 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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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.