Eshiels Community Woodland, Peebles
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Peebles Community Trust submitted an asset transfer request to purchase 6.9 hectares at Eshiels Wood, Peebles.
The purpose of the request was to manage the woodland to improve biodiversity, sustainable productive management through community ownership and partnership, resurrect coppice management skills and provide a space for further skills training and nature learning.
Decision notice
Documents and maps
- Asset Transfer Request (PDF 283KB)
- Location map (PDF 460KB)
- Management plan (PDF 3.8MB)
- Business plan (PDF 131KB)
- Justification of proposed purchase price (PDF 14KB)
- Community engagement modes and outcomes (PDF 152KB)
- Habitat survey (PDF 4.7MB)
- Relating the project to Scotland's National Outcomes (PDF 39KB)
- Membership of Peebles Community Trust (PDF 25KB)
- Articles of Association of Peebles Community Trust (PDF 373KB)
- Deed of Servitude (PDF 447KB)
- Deed of Servitude - accompanying plan (PDF 770KB)
- Access agreement for Sustrans path (PDF 2.3MB)
- Letter of support from Butterfly Conservation Scotland (PDF 55KB)
- Letter of support from East of Scotland Butterfly Conservation (PDF 235KB)
- Letter of support from Tweedgreen (PDF 23KB)
- Letter of support from Borders Forest Trust (PDF 245KB)
- Letter of support from Borders Outdoor & Woodland Learning Group (PDF 254KB)
- Letter of support from Butterfly Conservation (PDF 288KB)
Have your say
Anyone may make representations about a request and representations are published online. The representations on the request for Eshiels Wood received by the deadline of 26 April 2018 are published below: