Save Stobo Hope from Commercial Forestry Project

Stobo Hope, with Penvalla to the right (Simon Butterworth Photography).

Scottish Forestry currently awaiting Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) report
An enforcement notice remains in place at Stobo Hope, prohibiting forestry works. The forestry developers remain Euroforest Silviculture, who sprayed vast areas of heather moorland with glyphosate long before a forestry contract was…

Volunteers with our Stobo Hope campaign have lodged a petition for judicial review, campaigning against a proposed Sitka spruce plantation at Todrig, near Selkirk in the Scottish Borders. It is believed that Scottish Forestry acted unlawfully in determining no Environmental Impact Assessment was required, seemingly to the benefit of investors.
The…

Work on site remains unlawful; Scottish Forestry concede an EIA is needed
We have updated the film for our overview, showing spectacular views of Stobo Hope from the air. We are most grateful to Ted Leeming Photography in providing this drone footage.

Huge public support and our successful judicial review to save…

Court of Session rescinds £2 million contract, all funding, EIA decision and grant of consent
We are pleased to announce that an agreement has been reached between Stobo Residents Action Group Ltd (the Petitioner in the judicial review) and the Scottish Ministers (the Respondent in the judicial review) which has resulted…

Substantive hearing in Court of Session, Edinburgh 
The Stobo Residents Action Group Ltd lodged its petition for judicial review with the Court of Session in April 2024 and the Scottish Government as the respondent lodged answers to this petition. The Stobo Residents Action Group Ltd has now been granted permission for…