Forestry and Woodland Strategies - Scotland
fws
These strategies are a requirement that has now been added into the Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act. http://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2019/13/part/4/crossheading/forestry-and-woodland-strategy/enacted Most councils already have a FWS and these are normally accompanied by spatial data. Some of the strategies are produced jointly across Councils, e.g. Stirling & Clackmannanshire, Edinburgh & Lothians, Glasgow Clyde Valley. Generally, the FWS datasets contain similar attribution which identifies the FWS Classification, or the potential areas for woodland expansion. The attribution is usually along the lines of: Preferred, Potential, Sensitive, Unsuitable. Some of the councils have produced a few layers of data for their FWS which might apply specifically to woodland planting types, e.g. a separate FWS layer for native woodlands or for productive woodlands. Please note the data has been created using data of different scales (regional/local) and has been created as a high level assessment tool. The data should be viewed NO larger than 1:25000. Identification as a preferred area does not imply automatic approval of woodland planting proposals. Applications will be assessed based on site conditions. To be used in conjunction with the published supplementary guidance.
dataset
https://data.spatialhub.scot/dataset/forestry_and_woodland_strategy-is
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name: Planning (Scotland) Act 2019
description: Section 53. Forestry and woodland strategy
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This dataset was amalgamated, optimised and published by the Spatial hub. For more information visit www.spatialhub.scot.
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Limitations on public access
Use of the data is available to any organisation that is a member of the PSGA (Public Sector Geospatial Agreement) or any UK academic institution via Edina's subscription Digimap service. It is not currently commercially available.
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Spatial Hub Custodian
The Improvement Service
Livingston
EH54 6AX
United Kingdom
01506 282012
spatialhub@improvementservice.org.uk
pointOfContact
2023-02-07T16:49:23