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Felling Permissions and Licences (2012 onwards)

Description:


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This dataset applies to Felling Permission Applications (formerly Felling Licence Applications) received by Scottish Forestry (formerly Forestry Commission Scotland) after 1st January 2012 and administered using Scottish Forestry's Case Management System.

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Anyone wishing to fell trees must ensure that a Felling Permission (formerly Felling Licence) or approval under a grant scheme has been issued by Scottish Forestry before any felling is carried out or that one of the exceptions apply.


You normally need to get permission from Scottish Forestry to fell growing trees. This is usually given in a Felling Permission or an approval under a grant scheme. In certain circumstances you may also need special permission from another organisation for any proposed felling. This sometimes applies even if you do not need a Felling Permission.


Everyone involved in the felling of trees, whether doing the work or by engaging others, eg. the owner, agent, timber merchant or contractor, must ensure that a Felling Permission or approval under a grant scheme has been issued before any felling is carried out or that one of the exceptions apply. They must also ensure that the work is carried out in accordance with the terms of a Scottish Forestry Felling Permission. If there is no permission, or if the wrong trees are felled, anyone involved can be prosecuted.


Do not begin felling until Scottish Forestry have issued a Felling Permission or other approval. Any felling carried out without either a Felling Permission or other approval is an offence, unless it is covered by an exception.


Attributes:


CASE_REFERENCE : Case reference number

NAME_OF_PROPERTY : Property name

STATUS : The current status of the application

FELL_OPERATION_TYPE : The type of felling operation

FELL_AREA : The applicants estimated area of felling. Applies to the specific operation

FELL_VOLUME : The estimated volume from felling in cubic meters. Applies to the specific operation

NEAREST_TOWN : Nearest town

LOCAL_AUTH : Local Authority

CONSERVANCY : Conservancy

GRID_REF : National Grid Reference

REGISTERED : Date Registered

START_OF_PUBLIC_CONSULTATION : Public consultation start date

END_OF_PUBLIC_CONSULTATION : Public consultation end date

DECISION_ISSUED_ON : Date decision issued

LICENCE_EXPIRY_DATE : Date licence expires

RESTOCK_DUE_DATE : The date of any restocking requirements

DATE_VALIDATED : The date of the licence decision

DATE_CLOSED : The date the licence closed

FELLING_OPERATION_SUMMARY_ID : Felling operation code

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Identification info

Alternative title

S_FELLING_LICENCE_APPLICATIONS

Metadata Language
English
Character set
UTF8
Dataset Reference Date (Creation)
2012-01-01
Dataset Reference Date (Revision)
2024-11-19
Identifier
S_FELLING_LICENCE_APPLICATIONS
Presentation form
Digital map
Publisher
  Scottish Forestry - GIS ( Head of Geo-Information Services )
Saughton House, Broomhouse Drive , Edinburgh , City of Edinburgh , EH11 3XD , United Kingdom
Owner
  Scottish Forestry - Operational Delivery ( Head of Operational Delivery )
Saughton House, Broomhouse Drive , Edinburgh , City of Edinburgh , EH11 3XD , United Kingdom
Maintenance and update frequency
Monthly
Keywords
  • Forest Management

  • Grant Schemes

  • Planning

  • Environment

  • Felling

  • Landscape

  • Woodland

  • Licence

  • Ownership

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

  • Land use

Limitations on Public Access
Other restrictions
Other constraints

No limitations on public access

Use constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints

Please ensure that the following acknowledgement is displayed on any hard copy: Reproduced by Permission of Ordnance Survey on behalf of HMSO. © Crown copyright and database right [year]. Ordnance Survey Licence number 100043970.

Other constraints
Open Government Licence
Spatial representation type
Vector
Denominator
10000
Topic category
  • Farming
  • Biota
  • Economy
  • Environment
Extent
GB-SCT

ISO3166-2 2007-12-13

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Temporal reference

Temporal extent
 
Temporal extent
 
 
Reference system identifier
EPSG / OSGB 1936 / British National Grid (EPSG:27700) / 7.9

Distribution Information

Data format

Data format
Name Version

ESRI Shapefile

1.0

WMS

1.3.0

 

Transfer options

Resource Locator
Protocol Resource Locator Name

WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link

https://open-data-scottishforestry.hub.arcgis.com/

Scottish Forestry Open Data

OGC:WMS

https://ogc.nature.scot/geoserver/scottishforestry/ows?service=WMS&request=GetCapabilities

Felling_Permissions_and_Licences

 
 

Data quality info

Quality Scope
Dataset
Conformity
Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services
Explanation
Degree
false
Statement

Information is mapped during the licence approval process from maps supplied by the applicant (normally based on Ordnance Survey maps from 1:2,500 to 1:10,000)


The digitised data is captured against a combination of large scale datasets, primarily Ordnance Survey MasterMap but also aerial photography, Scottish Government Land Parcels (LPIS) and other reference datasets.

 

Metadata

File identifier
10BBDA20-5A46-4EA2-9048-8D1CDCCE99D6 XML
Metadata Language
English
Character set
UTF8
Resource type
Dataset
Metadata Date
2024-11-19T14:55:52.784Z
Metadata standard name

UK GEMINI

Metadata standard version

2.3

Point of contact

Individual name

GIS

Organisation name

Scottish Forestry

Position name

Head of Geo-Information Services

Delivery point

Saughton House, Broomhouse Drive

City

Edinburgh

Administrative area

City of Edinburgh

Postal code

EH11 3XD

Country

United Kingdom

Electronic mail address

geoinformationservices@forestry.gov geoinformationservices@forestry.gov.scot

Role
Point of contact
Point of contact
  Scottish Forestry - GIS ( Head of Geo-Information Services )
Saughton House, Broomhouse Drive , Edinburgh , City of Edinburgh , EH11 3XD , United Kingdom
 
 
 

Overviews

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Keywords

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
Land use

Publishing Body

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Associated resources (if any)

Not available


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