Scottish Forestry Felling Permissions and Licences from 2012 Onwards

Scottish Forestry's dataset records all felling permission applications received since 1st January 2012. It contains case details such as property name, application status, estimated felling area and volume, location, and key dates for registration, consultation, and decision. The data is administered via Scottish Forestry's Case Management System.

Use Cases

• Monitor regulatory compliance and enforcement trends based on application statuses and decision dates.
• Analyze spatial patterns of forestry operations based on location attributes like grid reference and nearest town.
• Assess the scale and type of felling activities based on estimated area, volume, and operation type.
• Track the lifecycle of permission cases based on dates for registration, consultation, validation, and closure.

Strengths

• Includes a clear temporal scope starting from 1st January 2012.
• Contains specific attributes for spatial analysis, such as National Grid Reference and nearest town.
• Provides detailed administrative timeline attributes, including dates for public consultation and licence expiry.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Provenance

Source

Scottish Forestry (formerly Forestry Commission Scotland)

Collection Method

Administered using Scottish Forestry's Case Management System from applications received.

Time Range

2012 onwards

Freshness

Data covers from 2012 onwards; last update date is unknown.

Geography

Scotland