Scottish Forestry Site Operators: EIR release

Information requested

Please can you tell me the operators of the following sites:

Location Name	NGR
Loch Bealach Ghearan	NR 94977 94719
Craig Dhubh	NR 88159 94655
Bovuy	NN 11914 22691
Colintraive	?
Kilmun	NS 17028 82310
Kilmory	NR 86847 86958
Cnoc Mor	NR 8894 8876
The Cruach, Loch Glashan	NR 9022 9213
Quarry, Loch Bealach Ghearan	NR 9504 9470
Croe Corner, Water of Croe	NN 27250 03700
Glen Laoigh, Loch Striven	NS 06165 86527
Doigs Grave, Lussa	NR 6953 3310
Lusa Loch	NR 71376 31115
Loch Eck	NS 13578 93608
Gartnagrenoch, Knapdale	NR 7893 9054
Loch an Add, Knapdale	NR 80546 89956
Trib River Eachaig	NS 1392 8402
Glen Tarson	NS 0838 8595
Glen Tarson 2	NS 0838 8595
Cnoc nan Muc, Inverneil	NR 8252 8303
Gleann Mor	NN 2156 0633
Gleann Mor 2	NN 20398 06414

Response

As the information you have requested is ‘environmental information’ for the purposes of the Environmental Information (Scotland) Regulations 2004 (EIRs), we are required to deal with your request under those Regulations. We are applying the exemption at section 39(2) of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 (FOISA), so that we do not also have to deal with your request under FOISA.

This exemption is subject to the ‘public interest test’. Therefore, taking account of all the circumstances of this case, we have considered if the public interest in disclosing the information outweighs the public interest in applying the exemption. We have found that, on balance, the public interest lies in favour of upholding the exemption, because there is no public interest in dealing with the same request under two different regimes. This is essentially a technical point and has no material effect on the outcome of your request.

While our aim is to provide information whenever possible, in this instance we are unable to provide some of the information you have requested because an exception under regulation 10(4)(a) (Information not held at time of request) of the EIRs applies to some of the information you have requested.

For those sites listed below, these are sites that form part of Scotland’s national forests and land, managed by Forestry and Land Scotland. The requested information is not held by Scottish Forestry; you can contact FLS via their website here: https://forestryandland.gov.scot/contact

Location Name	NGR
Cnoc Mor	NR 8894 8876
Croe Corner, Water of Croe	NN 27250 03700
Doigs Grave, Lussa	NR 6953 3310
Gartnagrenoch, Knapdale	NR 7893 9054
Kilmun	NS 17028 82310
Loch an Add, Knapdale	NR 80546 89956
Loch Bealach Ghearan	NR 94977 94719
Loch Eck	NS 13578 93608
Lusa Loch	NR 71376 31115
Quarry, Loch Bealach Ghearan	NR 9504 9470
The Cruach, Loch Glashan	NR 9022 9213

For those sites listed below, these are privately owned sites. We would not hold information as to the site operators, as woodland creation / felling permission applicants are not obliged to inform us of the contractors (operators) they intend to use to deliver works.

Location Name	NGR
Bovuy	NN 11914 22691
Cnoc nan Muc, Inverneil	NR 8252 8303
Craig Dhubh	NR 88159 94655
Gleann Mor	NN 2156 0633
Gleann Mor 2	NN 20398 06414
Glen Laoigh, Loch Striven	NS 06165 86527
Glen Tarson	NS 0838 8595
Glen Tarson 2	NS 0838 8595
Kilmory	NR 86847 86958
Trib River Eachaig	NS 1392 8402

For the location listed below, we are unable to identify a specific location without further information such as a grid reference, Forestry Grant scheme application reference, felling permission reference, etc.

Location Name	NGR
Colintraive	?

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