Felling and restocking regulations: strategic environmental assessment

Footnotes

1. Environmental Assessment (Scotland) Act 2005, asp 15 [online] Available at: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2005/15/introduction (accessed 04/09/2017)

2. The Forestry (Felling of Trees) Regulations 1979, SI 791 [online] Available at: http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1979/791/contents/made (accessed 22/02/2018)

3. The Forestry (Environmental Impact Assessment) (Scotland) Regulations 2017, SI 113 [online] Available at: http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2017/113/made (accessed 22/02/2018)

4. The Forestry (Exceptions from Restriction of Felling) Regulations 1979, SI 792 (as amended) [online] Available at: http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1979/792/made (accessed 27/02/2018)

5. Temporary Stop Notices ( TSNs) are new as a result of the 2018 Act. They will allow the Scottish Ministers to require felling to stop on any site where they believe that felling is taking place unlawfully, allowing investigations to begin safely on site.

6. Long Term Forest Plans are used to apply for licences to fell covering large, and often multi-phase and multi-site, forest management operations. They generally cover a period of twenty or more years but the licences that are granted are for a shorter period, the whole plan being reviewed at the point that the licences come to an end and the next phases require to licensed. Management are much smaller scale, but are more detailed and long term than a simple one-off licence application.

7. Per fixed calendar quarter ( i.e. not rolling) (1 Jan to 31 March, 1 April to 30 June, 1 July to 30 September and 1 October to 31 December.)

8. Alnus glutinosa common alder, Malus sylvestris ssp sylvestris crab apple, Fraxinus excelsior ash, Populus tremula aspen, Betula pubescens downy birch, Betula pendula silver birch, Prunus padus bird cherry, Prunus avium gean (wild cherry)

Ulmus glabra wych elm, Quercus robur pedunculate oak, Quercus petraea sessile oak, Sorbus aucuparia rowan, Salix caprea goat willow, Prunus spinosa blackthorn, Sambucus nigra elder, Crataegus monogyna common hawthorn, Corylus avellana hazel

Ilex aquifolium holly, Euonymus europaeus spindle, Taxus baccata yew, Juniperus communis juniper, Salix pentandra bay willow, Salix aurita eared willow, Salix cinerea grey willow (sallow), Salix phylicifolia tea-leaved willow, Salix myrsinifolia dark-leaved willow, Salix purpurea purple willow.

9. An approved forest plan includes an approved tolerance table. The plan sets out felling boundaries, timescales and species for restocking. The tolerance table forms part of the approval and sets out the limits to which the felling boundaries, felling dates, restocking species, restocking dates can be amended from what is set out in an approved forest plan and maps.

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22. ibid

23. ibid

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29. ibid

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38. ibid

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