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Sitka spruce

Explore Scottish felling and proposed-restocking applications mentioning Sitka spruce, with annual area statistics.

Applications
1,131

unique across both operation types

Proposed felling
7,427 ha

across 1,082 applications

Proposed restocking
4,217 ha

across 557 applications

Sitka spruce by year

Proposed hectares grouped by application registration year. Where the register has no registration date, the first archived date is used. The current year is partial.

Year Felling apps Felling ha YoY Restocking apps Restocking ha YoY
2026 252 1,873.1 -40% 121 788.7 -56%
2025 454 3,099.6 +33% 250 1,790.7 +14%
2024 357 2,338.0 +2150% 179 1,566.4 +2317%
2023 16 103.9 +772% 5 64.8 +872%
2022 3 11.9 2 6.67

Applications mentioning Sitka spruce

1,131 unique felling applications, newest first. Badges show which extracted table contains the species and the attributed area.

FPA-10758

Sherriff Hall Farm

Haddington · East Lothian · 14 Jun 2023

Expired

Felling · 1.80 ha · 2 rows

FPA-10558

Countesswells Forest / Hazlehead Woodland

Westhill · Aberdeen City · 4 Apr 2023

Approved

Felling · 6.63 ha · 3 rows Restocking · 5.53 ha · 1 row

FPA-10547

Murraytown

Gatehouse of Fleet · Dumfries and Galloway · 31 Mar 2023

Approved

Felling · 4.09 ha · 5 rows

FPA-10249

Letter Farm

Dunkeld · Perth and Kinross · 16 Dec 2022

Approved

Felling · 4.08 ha · 2 rows Restocking · 2.85 ha · 2 rows

FPA-10099

Lydgate

Ancrum · Scottish Borders · 19 Oct 2022

Approved

Felling · 1.31 ha · 1 row

FPA-9647

Ballochmyle Estates

Mauchline · East Ayrshire · 24 May 2022

Approved

Felling · 6.53 ha · 6 rows Restocking · 3.82 ha · 2 rows

These figures come from the detailed forms attached to felling applications. Woodland-creation grant records do not currently expose species-level fields in Standingwire. Figures are proposals rather than completed work; thinning rows are excluded from felling totals.