We are often asked “Why
should I buy a Woodland?” Here are just some of the things you can
and cannot do once you become a woodland owner.
You can:
Keep the Woodland all to yourself. Woods are a wonderful place to
get away from it all. The more you get to know your wood, the more
therapeutic it becomes. Some of our woods have public rights of way
running through them, but walkers must stick to the path.
You can camp or site a caravan in your wood for up to 28 days each
year.
Any more than this and you will need planning permission from your
district council.
Fix lots of Carbon
Each year, a typical slow growing oak wood covering one acre, will
store around 1.6 tonnes of carbon from the atmosphere. (This is
about the same amount of Carbon dioxide produced by a typical car
travelling 6000 miles.)
You cannot:
Build a house. You will need planning permission which will not be
granted. All our woods are important wildlife habitats which would
be threatened and disturbed by any form of residential development.
You can make lots of noise but it disturbs all the wildlife for
miles around (and sometimes upsets the neighbours!)
All of our woodlands have two restrictive covenants on them; both
are designed to ensure that the wood is managed in the long term for
future generations to benefit and enjoy. One covenant is to protect
the wood from commercial development and the second is to
prevent it being sub-divided into small plots, which some companies
offer but we think will prevent long term thinking and planned
management.
