Forestry Grant Scheme Long Term Forest Plan and consultee response documentation: EIR release

Information requested

The approved LTFP’s and consultee response documentation associated with the following approved FGS LTFP’s:

19FGS39743 – Achentoul (Date Approved: October 2020)
20FGS54087 – Achlachan (Date Approved: November 2021)
21FGS61085 – Strathmore (Date Approved: August 2023)

I am also looking for information on the following FGS LTFP’s which are showing on the Public Register as being in the “FPR” Stage:

17FGS15717 – The Brig (Due Date: 22nd September 2024)
20FGS48705 – Craigy Call (Due Date: 29th September 2024)
20FGS48706 – Lower Camster (Due Date: 29th September 2024)
20FGS48723 – Smerrie (Due Date: 29th September 2024)

Your help in this matter would be greatly appreciated.

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.

Due to the size of the files we are unable to upload the documents referred to above.

If you wish to consider, please contact us at the address below and we will be happy to provide.

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