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Forestry and Land Scotland

Polesburn Wood

Under offer Woodland

Listing details

Price
£50,000
Area
19.22 ha
Price per hectare
£2,601 / ha
Location
Methlick, Aberdeenshire
Selling agent
John Clegg (on behalf of FLS)
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Source and monitoring

StandingWire listed on
8 September 2026
Last checked
21 September 2026
Source updated
27 August 2026

Status is reported only when the selling agent states it explicitly. “No longer advertised” does not mean sold.

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✨ Why this was included

Property explicitly categorised as 'Woodland' with 19.22 hectares of land area. Title 'Polesburn Wood' and location in Aberdeenshire indicate a defined woodland holding. Selling agent John Clegg specialises in rural and forestry properties.

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Listing history

Meaningful changes captured from the public source.

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Tree health

Statutory Plant Health Notices nearby

Within 5 km

Notices are ordered with polygons covering the land listing mapped 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

PRAM13_0687_Braes_of_Gight

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 land listing mapped 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 land listing’s mapped point · NJ 850 380

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

National soil map of Scotland

Alluvial soils

Map unit 1

Mineral alluvial soils with peaty alluvial soils

Soil association
Alluvial Soils
Parent material
Recent riverine and lacustrine alluvial deposits
Landform
Flood plains with river terraces and former lake beds
Soil mixture in this map unit

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

  • Alluvial_loamy_wet · 25% Mineral alluvial soils
  • Alluvial_sandy_dry · 20% Mineral alluvial soils
  • Alluvial_sandy_wet · 20% Mineral alluvial soils
  • Alluvial_pal · 15% Peaty alluvial soils
  • Alluvial_loamy_dry · 10% Mineral alluvial soils
  • Alluvial_silty_clay · 10% Mineral alluvial soils
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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.

James Hutton Institute Open Data Licence ↗

These records describe the mapped point, not the whole property. Forestry capability is background information and does not establish planting permission or grant eligibility.

Nearby records

Nearby felling applications

Within 10 km
Application Location Status Distance Area Key date
FPA-11979 Mill of Ardo Location

Methlick

Aberdeenshire

Status Approved Distance 382 m away Area 0.17 ha Approved
FPA-11239 Mill of Ardo Location

Methlick

Aberdeenshire

Status Expired Distance 382 m away Area 0.35 ha Decision issued
FPA-8520 Mill of Ardo Location

Methlick

Aberdeenshire

Status Expired Distance 382 m away Area 0.29 ha Decision issued
FPA-8338 Haddo Estate Location

Methlick

Aberdeenshire

Status Expired Distance 1.4 km away Area 1.95 ha Decision issued
FPA-10718 Chapelhaugh Storm Arwen Location

Methlick

Aberdeenshire

Status Expired Distance 1.8 km away Area 8.15 ha Decision issued

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

Nearby records

Nearby woodland creation applications

Within 10 km
Application Location Status Distance Area Key date
21FGS58983 Gurgedyke Woodland Creation Location

Methlick

Aberdeenshire

Status Approved Distance 2.1 km away Area 6.7 ha Approved
16FGS10718 Schivas Estate Hill of Newton Woodland Creation Location

Aberdeenshire

Status Approved Distance 3.3 km away Area 9 ha Approved
22FGS68647 Woodland Grant 2022 Location

Methlick

Aberdeenshire

Status Approved Distance 4.4 km away Area 8.78 ha Approved
22FGS69449 Haddo Estate Raxton Location

Tarves

Aberdeenshire

Status Approved Distance 6.0 km away Area 2.08 ha Approved
15FGS00873 Ardlogie WC Location

Aberdeenshire

Status Approved Distance 7.2 km away Area 12.89 ha Approved