Felling Licence Applications (1998-2011)

Anyone wishing to fell trees must ensure that a licence or permission under a grant scheme has been issued by Scottish Forestry (formerly Forestry Commission Scotland) 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 Licence 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 Licence.


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 licence 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 permission. If there is no licence or other valid permission, or if the wrong trees are felled, anyone involved can be prosecuted.


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

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Alternate title

FCPRODUCT.S_FLA_1998_2011
Date ()
1997-09-01
Date ()
2013-10-14
Identifier

FCPRODUCT.S_FLA_1998_2011
Presentation form
mapDigital
 

Scottish Forestry

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GIS

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Head of Geo-Information Services

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Saughton House, Broomhouse Drive

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Edinburgh

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City of Edinburgh

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EH11 3XD

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United Kingdom
 

Scottish Forestry

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Operational Delivery

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Head of Operational Delivery

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Saughton House, Broomhouse Drive

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Edinburgh

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City of Edinburgh

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EH11 3XD

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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
Access constraints
otherRestrictions
Other constraints

No limitations on public access
Use 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.
Use constraints
Open Government Licence
Spatial representation type
vector
Denominator
10000
Metadata language
eng (en)
Topic category
  • Farming
  • Biota
  • Economy
  • Environment
Geographic identifier

GB-SCT

Date ()
2007-12-13

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Reference system identifier

EPSG

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OSGB 1936 / British National Grid (EPSG:27700)

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7.9
Distribution format

  • ESRI Shapefile

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    1.0

     )

  • WMS

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    1.3.0

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OnLine resource
Scottish Forestry Open Data (

WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link

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Data download site

OnLine resource
Felling_Licence_Applications_1998_2011 (

OGC:WMS

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Scope
dataset
Statement

Information is mapped following approval of the licence from agreement maps supplied by the applicant (normally based on 1:2500 or 1:10,000 OS maps).


Between 1997 and 2003, FLA's were digitised against OS 25K and 10K raster backdrops. From 2004 onwards, OS Mastermap has been used as the base mapping.


Attributes:


FEATDESC Description of felling type

FELLREF Felling Licence Reference Number

GRIDSQUARE 100km Grid Square

GRIDREF Numeric grid reference

PROPNAME Name of the property

DATE_APPR Approval date

DATE_EXP Expiry date

DATE_RESUM Resumption date

RESUMPTION Comments about the resumption

DATE_RP Date licence replanted

RSTCK_DUE Date the restocking is due to take place

WITHDRAWN When the licence was withdrawn

CLOSED When the licence was closed

CONDITION Condition of the licence

Metadata

File identifier
1E63FF74-41FB-47D9-8DBA-3BCA19C5B5DB
Metadata language
eng (en)
Resource Type
dataset
Date stamp
2023-06-22
Metadata standard name

UK GEMINI
Metadata standard version

2.2
 

Scottish Forestry

 -

GIS

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Head of Geo-Information Services

 )

Saughton House, Broomhouse Drive

 ,

Edinburgh

 ,

City of Edinburgh

 ,

EH11 3XD

 ,

United Kingdom
 
 

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