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Leadburn Community Woodland

Friends of Leadburn Community Woodland (FLCW) submitted a request to purchase 9.4 hectares of land at Leadburn, next to Leadburn Community Woodland. 

FLCW proposed to increase the variety of walks available from the community woodland and to open views to the south by removing many existing conifers. The cleared area is intended to be restored as a raised bog.

Decision notice

In 2018, Forest Enterprise Scotland (precursor to Forestry and Land Scotland) decided to agree to the CATS request for the following reasons:

  • Forest Enterprise Scotland notified the community of the intention to sell Leadburn Wood, which is adjacent to the existing 44 ha Leadburn Community Woodland
  • Friends of Leadburn Community Woodland’s proposals and business case demonstrated a sensible and realistic vision for the future use of the additional 9.4 ha of woodland and demonstrated how the additional area would be integrated with and would enhance the benefits of the existing community woodland
  • Friends of Leadburn Community Woodland demonstrated an 11-year track record of delivery on adjoining ground with similar management objectives and site conditions, supported by significant volunteer input, and a Board of Directors with a range of skills and resilience shown by the recruitment of new Directors as required.

Decision notice in relation to Leadburn (PDF 82KB)

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Have your say

Anyone may make representations about a request and representations are published online. The representations on the request for Leadburn received by the deadline of 5 April 2018 are published below: