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FPA-12518

Gatehouse Hill Park Grazings

Approved Felling Permission Application

Where

Woodland
Gatehouse HIll
Nearest town
Gatehouse of Fleet
Local authority
Dumfries and Galloway Council
Conservancy
South Scotland Conservancy
Grid reference
NX604569

Official case map ↗ OpenStreetMap ↗

Key dates

  1. Application registered 2 May 2025
  2. Application accepted 2 May 2025
  3. Consultation opens 2 May 2025
  4. Consultation closes 30 May 2025
  5. Decision issued 3 June 2025
  6. Restocking due 30 June 2027

Area

Total area
0.05 ha
Broadleaf
0.05 ha

Official source

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FPA-12518

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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
30 May 2025 – 27 Jun 2025
Felling area
0.05 ha
Estimated volume
12.81 m³
Proposed restocking
0.05 ha · 100% of felling licence

Species in felling operations

Ash

Proposed restocking species

Beech Hawthorn Oak Wild cherry (Gean)

Felling operations

Detailed proposed felling operations
Site/CptOperationSpeciesAreaAgeTreesVolumeMarking
Tree 1 Felling Individual Trees Ash 0.01 ha 70 yr 1 2.2 m³ n/a
Tree 2 Felling Individual Trees Ash 0.02 ha 80 yr 1 3.75 m³ n/a
Tree 3 Felling Individual Trees Ash 0.02 ha 100 yr 1 6.86 m³ n/a

Proposed restocking

Detailed proposed restocking operations
Site/CptProposalSpecies / land use% of siteAreaDensity / haTreesAlternative site
Tree 1, 2 & 3 Plant an alternative area Oak 25% 0.01 ha 1,600 As per Map
Tree 1, 2 & 3 Plant an alternative area Wild cherry (Gean) 25% 0.01 ha 1,600 As per Mpa
Tree 1, 2 & 3 Plant an alternative area Beech 25% 0.01 ha 1,600 As per Map
Tree 1, 2 & 3 Plant an alternative area Hawthorn 25% 0.01 ha 1,600 As per Map

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

UK/PH/AH/26072012c

P. ramorum

Hosts: Larch

Status Issued Proximity 2.5 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

Killiegowan Wood

Site 847

Official SiteLink record for Killiegowan Wood
Designation BIOLOGICAL Proximity 1.6 km away Published area 55.01 ha Geographic scope TERRESTRIAL

Soils and forestry capability

At the application’s recorded location · NX 604 568

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

National soil map of Scotland

Brown soils

Map unit 223

Brown earths with rankers

Soil association
Ettrick
Parent material
Drifts derived from Lower Paleozoic greywackes and shales
Landform
Hills with strong and steep complex slopes: moderately to very rocky
Soil mixture in this map unit

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

  • Linhope · 70% Brown earths
  • ETTRICK(RANK) · 30% Rankers
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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.

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