Requirements & Public Notifications

Phase 2 – Forestry Licence Viewer (FLV)

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Circular 01 2021 Phase 2 Forestry Licence Viewer.pdf

Forestry Licence Viewer (FLV)

Please click this link to view the Licence Viewer

Tree Felling Licence (TFL) Guidance Note

Please click this link to view the TFL Guidance Note 03122020.pdf

Application for a Licence to Fell Trees

Please click this link to view the Application for a Licence to Fell Trees.pdf

Felling Site Notice

Please click this link to view the Notice Site Notice Felling 16122020.docx or Site Notice Felling 16122020.pages.pdf

Site Notice Afforestation

Please click this link to view the Notice Site Notice Afforestation 16122020.docx or Site Notice Afforestation 16122020.pages.pdf

Site Notice Forest Road Works

Please click this link to view the Notice Site Notice Roads 16122020.docx or Site Notice Roads 16122020.pages.pdf

Please study this carefully, as there are notices to be put up at your forest entrance, prior to any harvesting operations taking place.

The following is short footage of the hardwood thinning/harvesting video and drone filming we are doing soon:

Hardwood Thinning/Harvesting Video Taster

As you can see, it is a very quick and efficient way of working in a hardwood plantation, especially if there are a lot of briers.

If you have a hardwood plantation with good access (forest road, etc) a current felling licence and grant approval (if needed) and are interested in having a demonstration filmed at your plantation, please contact John Sherlock on 086 257 6864.

Our Teagasc Forestry Development Officer, Kevin O’Connell, has asked that we share the following four videos:

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Appropriate Assesments for Licences

We have received a copy of the following two paged Circular from the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine’s Forestry Division.

Information Required for Forestry Licence

Application Completion

‘The Department has recently reviewed its systems for the preparation of Appropriate Assessment Screening Determinations, Appropriate Assessment Reports and Appropriate Assessment Determinations.  We have made some improvements to the system to optimise the time of the ecologists to concentrate on the ecology aspects of each application.  Currently these improvements are only applied to private tree felling (TFL) applications, with ecologists working mostly on these files in advance of the system being developed further to assist with forest road works and afforestation licence applications.’

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Please click on the following link for some of the updates:

Circular 08 2021 Information Required for Forestry Licence Application Completions.pdf

Please find below the complete one hour webinar Hardwood Focus 2021 ‘Firewood Production from Thinning Broadleaves’

Hardwood Focus 2021 Webinar

– Firewood Production from Thinning Broadleaves

Please click on the following link for a planning leaflet from the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine:

DAFM Planning 2021 Leaflet.pdf

This leaflet is relevant for anyone wishing to convert their Ash woodlands to conifers.

Planning Issues Leaflet.