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FPA-12412

Strathspey Estate

Approved Felling Permission Application

Where

Woodland
Kinveachy, Loch Vaa and Avie Lochan
Nearest town
Aviemore
Local authority
Highland Council
Conservancy
Highland and Islands Conservancy
Grid reference
NH907177

Official case map ↗ OpenStreetMap ↗

Key dates

  1. Application registered 31 March 2025
  2. Application accepted 31 March 2025
  3. Consultation opens 9 April 2025
  4. Consultation closes 7 May 2025
  5. Decision issued 26 August 2025

Official source

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FPA-12412

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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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  1. First captured

    Status when first captured
    Approved

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

Loch Vaa

Site 1065

Official SiteLink record for Loch Vaa
Designation BIOLOGICAL Proximity 344 m away Published area 44.83 ha Geographic scope TERRESTRIAL

Kinveachy Forest

Site 864

Official SiteLink record for Kinveachy Forest
Designation BIOLOGICAL Proximity 717 m away Published area 5,327.45 ha Geographic scope TERRESTRIAL

Soils and forestry capability

At the application’s recorded location · NH 906 177

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

National soil map of Scotland

Peaty podzols

Map unit 30

Peaty gleyed podzols with podzolic rankers with peaty rankers

Soil association
Arkaig
Parent material
Drifts derived from schists, gneisses, granulites and quartzites principally of the Moine Series
Landform
Rugged hills with strong and steep slopes: very rocky
Soil mixture in this map unit

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

  • Kildonan · 50% Peaty gleyed podzols
  • ARKAIG(PODRANK) · 25% Podzolic rankers
  • Arkaig · 25% 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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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.