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You can use our contact form to ask us questions across many forestry related topics. Let us know how we can help, and we’ll direct your query to the right team.

You can also:

  • attach forms and applications
  • make an appointment with your local conservancy office

We’ll aim to call you back on most queries within 2 working days.

What we don’t do

Scottish Forestry often receives enquiries for issues that are the responsibility of other organisations.

To help you get to the right place quickly, we've listed some of the main topics we often get asked about, together with details of how you can contact the right organisation.

See what we don’t do

Other ways to contact us

If you’d rather write to us, our main Edinburgh office address is:

Saughton House
Broomhouse Drive
Edinburgh
EH11 3XD

Central Scotland

Central Scotland Conservancy

Bothwell House Hamilton Business Park, Caird Park Hamilton ML3 0QA
Conservator: Keith Wishart

Phone: 0300 067 6006
Grampian

Grampian Conservancy

Portsoy Road Huntly AB54 4SJ
Conservator: Steven Hutcheon

Phone: 0300 067 6210
Highlands and Islands

Highland and Islands Conservancy

'Woodlands' Fodderty Way Dingwall Ross-shire IV15 9XB
Conservator: John Risby

Phone: 0300 067 6950
Perth and Argyll

Perth and Argyll Conservancy

Upper Battleby Redgorton Perth PH1 3EN
Conservator: Matt Young

Phone: 0300 067 6005
South Scotland

South Scotland Conservancy

55/57 Moffat Road Dumfries DG1 1NP
Conservator: Neil Murray

Phone: 0300 067 6500


Selkirk

Weavers Court Forest Mill Selkirk TD7 5NY
Conservator: Neil Murray

Phone: 0300 067 6007

You can make an appointment with this Conservancy office via phone (as per the details above) or by using this form.

Please ensure you provide your name, contact number and brief details of your query – likewise if you call us and are diverted to an answering machine. We aim to call you back within 2 working days.

Our teams are not always in the office. We encourage you to book an appointment to help us ensure a relevant member of our team is available to help with your enquiry.

You can submit applications for Forestry Grant Scheme (FGS) funding throughout the year.

Applications are online only. You must register with Rural Payments and Services and have a Business Reference Number (BRN).

Before using this form, we recommend you read the FGS full scheme guidance before you apply, as this details:

  • the eligibility rules related to the scheme
  • information on how to apply and how applications are assessed
  • information on how the scoring criteria works
  • how we manage applications against the available budget

Forestry Grant Scheme – full guidance (Rural Payments and Services website)

Have we written to tell you we have already – or soon will – refuse, withhold, reduce or recover your Forestry Grant Scheme payment?

If you are not sure about the reasons why we have made this decision, contact your Scottish Forestry conservancy office via this form, or write to us at the address above.

Before using this form, we recommend you read about our appeals process.

Appeals (Rural Payments and Services website)

To appeal a Single Application Form (SAF) decision, visit the Rural Payments and Services (RP&S) online portal and read about our appeals process.

Appeals (Rural Payments and Services website)

We also recommend you read the full guidance on using the SAF form.

Single Application Form 2025 (Rural Payments and Services website)

Before using this form, we recommend you read about our scoring criteria and the clearing process.

Scoring criteria and clearing process (Rural Payments and Services website)

Before using this form, we recommend you read about our reviews process. This shows you how to ask for a review of a decision relating to a Forestry Grant Scheme application.

Reviews (Rural Payments and Services website)

You should carefully consider our complaints procedure if you are concerned with the way the assessment of your application has been handled for the:

  • Forestry Grant Scheme
  • Small Woodlands Loan Scheme

Make a complaint

Before using this form, we recommend you read our claims and payments guidance.

Claims and payments (Rural Payments and Services website)

This provides full details on claims and payments, including claim years.

Our Conservancy offices manage the local delivery of grant applications.

Before using this form, we recommend you carefully consider our complaints procedure.

Make a complaint

You can then use this form, or write to your local Conservancy, with any complaint related to grants.

This includes any concerns you have with the way the assessment of your application has been handled for the:

  • Forestry Grant Scheme
  • Small Woodlands Loan Scheme

Before using this form, we recommend you read our page on the Community Fund. This provides some detail on:

  • eligibility
  • how to apply

Community fund

Have another query to do with grants?

Before using this form, we recommend you consider our full guidance on the Forestry Grant Scheme.

Forestry Grant Scheme full guidance (Rural Payments and Services website)

If you still cannot find the answer you’re looking for, use this form to contact your local Conservancy office.

Before using this form, you can check whether you are likely to require a felling permission by reading our Tree Felling Leaflet or our application guidance:

Tree felling in Scotland leaflet

Felling Permission – Applicant’s Guidance

Further information on permissions can be found in our ‘Apply to fell trees’ section. Our exemptions guidance will help you judge if your felling is exempt.

How to apply to fell trees

If no exemptions apply, you must apply for felling permission. If you are exempt, you can fell the trees.

Check felling permission exemptions for utilities and infrastructure

Before using this form, we recommend you read our guidance on how to apply for felling permission.

This will provide an overview of the steps you should consider when applying.

How to apply to fell trees

Further detail is available in our applicant guidance.

Felling Permission – Applicant’s Guidance

You can also attach your application to this form query.

Before using this form, we recommend you read our web page on making changes to approved felling permissions.

The page includes details on how felling permissions variations are considered, as well as the application to vary a felling permission.

Making changes to approved felling permissions

You can also attach your application to this form query.

Our Conservancy offices manage the local delivery of felling permissions.

Before using this form, we recommend you carefully consider our complaints procedure.

Make a complaint

You can then use this form, or write to us at the address above, to raise a complaint related to felling.

Before using this form, we recommend you read about our evaluation process for felling permissions.

Our evaluation process for felling permissions

Further detail on the full appeals process is available in our applicant guidance.

Felling Permission – Applicant’s Guidance

Before using this form, we recommend you read our web page on how to tell whether felling has been authorised.

How can I tell whether felling has been authorised?

Our Conservancy offices manage reports of unauthorised felling.

Before using this form, we recommend you read our web page on how to tell whether felling has been authorised.

How can I tell whether felling has been authorised?

You should also carefully consider our complaints procedure.

Make a complaint

You can then use this form, or write to us at the address above, to raise a complaint related to unauthorised felling report.

Before using this form, we recommend you explore the felling chapter on this website, including:

Why do we fell trees?

How to apply to fell trees

How can I tell whether felling has been authorised?

If you still cannot find the answer you’re looking for, use this form to contact your local Conservancy office.

Before using this form, we recommend you explore the planting chapter on this website, including:

How we can support your woodland creation plans

Whether you need consent

The woodland creation application process

Getting started with woodlands on your farm or croft

Before using this form, we recommend you explore our Integrating Trees Network page:

The Integrating Trees Network

Please do let us know if you:

  • have any questions about the network
  • would like to share ideas about the type of events you'd like us to focus on
  • want to know how to get involved

Before using this form, we recommend you explore the planting chapter on this website, including our page on getting started with farm woodlands.

The page includes details on how to apply for a Farm Woodland Assessment.

Getting started with woodlands on your farm or croft

Before using this form, we recommend you find out more about how our 3 registers work:

Register of Environmental Impact Assessments (EIA)

Register of woodland creation and felling permissions

Register of felling permissions within forestry plans

Let us know if you experience any problems using the registers.

Before using this form, we recommend you read our page on reporting pests and diseases:

Protect trees – report pests and disease

Do you have a query about:

  • applying for a timber movement or processing license?
  • checking timber or wood packaging import or export regulations?

We recommend you first read our web page about tree health in Scotland.

How tree health is protected in Scotland

The page includes details on tree health border and trade functions.

You can also use this form if you’ve any questions following notification of a tree health survey from us.

Before using this form, we recommend you find out more about how our GIS services work:

Scottish Forestry Map Viewer

Open data portal

Let us know if you experience any problems using the maps or if you have any issues related to forestry data.

If you have a technical issue with the Land Information Search, you need to email the help desk at the Scottish Environmental Protection Agency (SEPA) in the first instance.

Contact the Scottish Environmental Protection Agency (SEPA)

Before using this form, we recommend you visit the Woodland Carbon Code website.

Woodland Carbon Code

The website should provide everything you'll need to know, including guidelines for buyers and sellers of carbon units.

Before you get in touch, the following information may be helpful.

You can use this form to send:

  • purchase orders for goods/services provided by us (select the supplying Edinburgh office, or your local conservancy office)
  • invoices (addressed to our Edinburgh office or the relevant local conservancy office address)
  • all remittances
  • all other finance-related queries

To enable prompt payment, please ensure all invoices are addressed to Scottish Forestry and contain the relevant PO number.

We can no longer process payments addressed to our previous organisation of Forestry Commission Scotland.

As we're funded by Scottish Government, we're classed as being an unavoidable creditor and therefore do not need credit references. You can be confident that any valid invoices submitted to us will be paid in full.

Before submitting a Freedom of Information (FOI) or Environmental Information (Scotland) Regulations (EIR) request, we recommend you explore the web pages in our ‘How we work’ section.

How we work

For FOI requests, we will respond within 20 working days.

For EIR requests, we will respond within 20 working days - though an extension to 40 working days is possible if the information is complex and voluminous.

Where an extension is necessary, Scottish Forestry will notify you of the delay and provide an estimated completion date.

Looking for current job opportunities?

View our latest vacancies

You can search and apply for any jobs through our jobs portal.

Apply for a job

You can also use this form for all other HR related enquiries, including ex-staff queries about employment records or pensions.

We recommend you direct any questions around pensions to the pension provider - Civil Service Pensions (MYCSP) - directly.

You can ask about planning for retirement, pension statements, and much more.

Contact Civil Service Pensions

If you have a pension related question that falls outside MyCSP, let us know via this form.

All press releases and blogs can be searched and read within our news chapter.

News and stories

Before using this form, we recommend you carefully consider our complaints procedure.

Make a complaint

You can then use this form, or write to your local conservancy address above, to raise a complaint.

Note that our conservancy offices manage the local delivery of felling permissions, reports of unauthorised felling and grant applications.

If you wish to raise a complaint in these areas, select ‘Grants’ or ‘Felling’ and the relevant complaint option.

Let us know if you are:

  • experiencing a problem with the website
  • require a web page or document translated
  • require a web page or document in a new format

Are we missing any key content or information you need? You can also feedback on specific issues via the ‘page feedback’ button on most pages of the website.

Is your query about something else not on this list?

Use this form to contact your local conservancy on any other issue.

Still need help?

Thank you, your submission has been successful.

A member of Scottish Forestry will reply to your query as soon as possible.

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