Eamonn Wall & Co

NEWS UPDATE

COMPANY UPDATE

May you live in interesting times! This perspective certainly applies to both the business and political environment we now operate in. The Credit Crunch happened for us back in April 2006 when the woodland grant scheme suddenly closed five months early. However since then our order book gradually grew as we won some interesting long term projects. In fact our turnover was up for the forestry year just completed. We planted 95,142 trees which was a low number for us but not surprising with the absence of grant incentives for woodland creation. Demand for tree surveys and woodland management plans keeps increasing.

SRDP-RDC-RP

The Scottish Government’s new land management grant scheme was launched back in April. So far we have submitted seven schemes and the first two have just been approved. This new scheme combines all the old schemes run by the FC, SNH and SGRPID and provides grant aid (60% to 70% of Standard Costs) for tree planting, woodland management planning and works, farm conservation (hedging, ponds, grass margins etc.) and a whole range of access and vernacular building support.

Loch Leven Heritage Trail

This 14km (£2m) cycle path around Loch Leven was officially opened on time and to budget on a beautiful blue sky day in early November. We were retained as project managers since its inception two years ago and it has certainly kept Lewis and Matthew very busy over this period. All the seating, signage and artwork are now in place and we urge you to walk or cycle some of this fascinating trail. We also obtained WIAT (Woods In and Around Towns) funding for this project.

Saving the Strawberry Tree

We have been working on this project even longer – ever since 2004 – when we surveyed all the trees on the site which is situated in Trinity near the Botanic Gardens in Edinburgh. During our survey we discovered a beautiful and rare Madrona tree (Arbutus menziesii) which is closely related to the native Irish Strawberry Tree. Over a four year period we basically containerised the tree insitu by cutting off the roots and putting plastic walls in the soil creating a 4m x 4m x 1½m deep open box. Come November 5^th 2007 we exposed this box (or root ball) of soil containing the tree’s roots and wrapped it in hessian and wire mesh. Then with the aid of slings and a 600 tonne crane we lifted the entire tree and its rootball to its new position on the site where we installed an automatic watering system. It weighed 25 tonnes. Thereafter the construction of this £50m project was then able to proceed. Come June we were very pleased indeed to see fresh leaves flushing.

Trees and Buildings

We are gaining particular expertise in the area of trees and buildings and in the summer Eamonn attended the Trees and City Conference which he reviewed into a 5,000 word paper. It was recently published in the Forestry Journal. Councils are rightly expecting developers to safeguard trees on building sites as in the past, retained trees were often wrecklessly damaged. We now work with a wide range of architects, landscape architects and developers helping them manage and extend the tree resources of their sites. We continue to work with the RBS at their headquarters near Edinburgh airport and carried out a whole farm tree survey near Loch Lomond.

Woodland Management

We have been very busy undertaking the construction of woodland footpaths completing interesting projects in Anstruther, Falkirk and North Lanarkshire. We prepared two native woodland surveys for SNH in Ayrshire and carried out numerous forest surveys throughout Scotland. We continue to enjoy designing new woodlands, arboretums and tree landscapes. We manage timber harvesting projects and provide a complete service including fencing (e.g. a 3500m fence for the Woodland Trust flown out by helicopter!), drainage, roading, tree planting and weeding, pruning, tree surgery and rhododendron clearance.

Investing in Forestry

This side of the business has grown a lot during the past year fuelled by an increasing awareness of the benefits of growing timber trees as an investment. Forests grow an average of about 5% per annum and this combined with the special tax status of forestry (free from income, corporation, inheritance and capital gains tax) together with its green credentials of CO² absorbing qualities has drawn investors into the sector. So we have been busy acting for clients buying and selling woods, and putting together syndicate groups to buy larger woods.

People

Congratulations to Lewis and his partner Elaine who gave birth to her first baby back in July. Once again Malcolm made some trips across the Atlantic to visit his parents-in-law in Detroit. Eamonn kept himself busy attending the Royal Forestry Society’s Study Tour to Eastern Turkey in September. This nine day trip visited the Black Sea woods before heading up into the high mountains (9,000 ft), over to Chamila next to Georgia and then to see the plains of Kars overlooking the Russians in Armenia viewed from the famous Ani ruins. He also attended an interesting course on the design and management issues associated with arboretums. After many years of hard work with the firm we were sad at Craig’s departure in October. We wish him well for the future.

With a strong order book buoyed up by new SRDP inspired schemes, we look forward to the coming year.

Our team consists of:

Eamonn Wall Matthew Trewin

Lewis MacAskill Jane Deaner

Malcolm Young Jane Brindley

and all our regular sub-contractors and tree surgeons

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Scottish Rural Development Programme

The Scottish Rural Development Programme's Rural Development Contract was launched on April 7th 2008. Full details below.


Woodland Investment Opportunities Full details below
Loch Leven Heritage Project The seeds for this ambitious project to create a multi-user path all the way around Loch Leven, near Kinross were originally sown by the members of TRACKS (The Rural Access Committee for Kinross-shire) over 10 years ago. Following several years of feasibility studies, environmental impact studies, fundraising and local landowner negotiations, the project was formally launched in November 2006 by Rhona Brankin MSP. Funders for this £2m project include HLF, SNH, Perth & Kinross Council, Forestry Commission and others. Eamonn Wall & Co were pleased to be appointed as Project Manager in April 2006. Work on Phase 1 of the project started in December 2006 following extensive route survey work and a detailed tendering process. In spite of one of the wettest winters in many years, Phase 1 will be completed in Spring 2007, thus creating the first leg of the route from Kinross round to Channel Farm, some 5.52km in distance; this phase will be opened to the public on May 17th 2007. Phase 2 construction work will commence in June 2007, which will include the installation of a 30m span new bridge over the historic Leven Cut. The feasibility studies suggest that, once completed in 2008, this "round the loch" route, which takes in some spectacular scenery and wildlife viewing opportunities, will become one of the most popular routes of its kind in Central Scotland, attracting an anticipated 100,000 visitors per year, with obvious benefits to the local economy. Eamonn Wall & Co are therefore delighted to be steering this project to success.




	Saving the Strawberry Tree A one hundred year old Strawberry Tree (arbutus menziesii), one of only 15 growing in Scotland, is having to be re-located due to building development at a site within Edinburgh City. We are pleased to say that Eamonn Wall & Co has been retained to oversee this important project. This has involved initial pruning of the canopy and subsequently the all important root pruning was carried out in two separate operations 12 months apart in preparation for the move. This work has been carried out sensitively over a 4 year span and culminated in the actual move on November 6th 2007. This involved digging around the tree and creating a root ball which was lifted by a 500 tonne crane using a sling system. The tree is now guyed in its new location (35m from the original). A trickle watering system is in place.

Bryophytes Field Guide Released

Carole Crawford has recently published a wonderful field guide to common mosses and liverworts of Scotland and Ireland's native woodland. The guide is beautifully illustrated with clear photographs and useful information for the amateur and professional alike.

Eamonn Wall & Co and Scottish Natural Heritage provided the funding for the printing of this second edition.

Eamonn Wall & Co. Release Pruning Guide

Eamonn Wall & Co. now have a useful field guide to the pruning of young trees available from their office in Dollar. To contact us for your complementary copy of the guide click here

The Beauty of Trees

We have been very pleased with the success of our new publication called the "Beauty of Trees" which explains some of the many benefits which trees can bring to our lives. If you are interested in reserving your free copy then please contact your local office.

Scottish Rural Development Programme

We have prepared a number of fact sheets to help summarise this new scheme:

Sheet No. 1 LMO Summary Sheet
Sheet No. 2 Grants for Woodland Creation
Sheet No. 3 Grants for Woodland Management
Sheet No. 4 Grants for Farm Conservation
Sheet No. 5 Options List

Copies available from our Dollar office

New Forestry and Woodland Management Grants Scheme

The Scottish Rural Development Programme (SRDP) was finally launched on the 7^th April almost exactly two years after the previous Scottish Forestry Grants Scheme was prematurely closed on April 14^th 2006. The SRDP is a £1.6bn Scottish Government support programme of economic, environmental and social measures designed to develop rural Scotland over the next six years. Approximately £40m per year is intended to go into woodland management in order to meet the objectives of the Scottish Forestry Strategy. One such objective is the establishment of 10,000 hectares of new woodland per year, of which 2,000ha will be carried out by the Forest Enterprise under their new land acquisition programme.

The SRDP comprises a number of rural support measures into which all previous grant schemes have been subsumed including the more obvious ones like Rural Stewardship Scheme (RSS), Land Management Contracts Menu Scheme (LMC), Scottish Forestry Grants Scheme (SFGS), Farm Diversification Scheme, SNH’s Land Care Scheme and many, many more. The portfolio of schemes comprised by the new SRDP totals seven and for the sake of completeness it is worth mentioning them as follows:

Crofting Counties Agricultural Grant Scheme
Food Processing, Marketing and Co-operation Grant Scheme
Forestry Commission Challenge funds
The LEADER Initiative
Less Favoured Area Support Scheme
Rural Development Contracts
Skills Development Scheme

The main support for forestry and woodland management will be under the Rural Development Contracts (RDC), Challenge Funds and to a limited extent under the Skills Development Schemes. However it is important to be aware of opportunities under the other schemes as well.

The RDC is itself made up of two measures, Land Managers Options (LMO) and Rural Priorities (RP).

Land Managers Options

This is what is known as a Tier 2 grant. Tier 1 is the Single Farm Payment that most farms in Scotland now receive in lieu of previous crop/animal support. Land Managers Options provide a range of 22 grants for land managers based on the size of their land holding. Basically it’s a matter of completing a simple form to claim up to your annual allowance. Compared to the LMC scheme it replaced, LMO now includes more woodland options but less funding for public access.

This allowance is calculated on the size of the farm including IACS registered woodland as follows:

£75 per hectare for the first 10ha;
£30 per hectare for the next 90ha;
£1 per hectare for the next 900ha;
and 10p per hectare thereafter.

For example, the maximum allowance for a 100ha (247 acres) farm is thus £3,450. There are five woodland options as follows:

Small scale woodland creation:
Max 2ha per year
Max 1ha per block and min 0.1ha
£2,500/ha, min 2500 conifers per ha and 1100 broadleaves per ha.
Management of farm woodlands:
Only applicable if there is between 1ha and 30ha of woodland on the farm.
Survey, management plan and actual works covered by an annual payment of £28/ha/year with a £41/ha/year supplement for removal of livestock from native woodland

Construction of woodland access routes to help management – roads, bridges, entrances etc. 50% of costs.

Management of seed stands, 50% of costs.
Modernisation through electronic data management in forestry

Rural Development Contracts – Rural Priorities

This is the main measure which combines the old Scottish Forestry Grants Scheme, the Rural Stewardship Scheme, together with many new business development options. It is a Tier 3 scheme and therefore Rural Priorities is a competitive mechanism to ensure that contracts are awarded for the proposals which are best able to deliver the agreed required priorities. Scotland has been subdivided into eleven regions and a committee (RPAC – Rural Priorities Assessment Committee) set up in each region to establish its priorities for grant aid which covers all land management grants such as farm conservation, woodlands and business development. All RP grant applications have to be approved by the RPAC which meets periodically.

The range of grants available cover three European strands or Axis, and are as follows:

AXIS 1 Improving the competitiveness of agriculture and forestry by supporting restructuring development, development and innovation. 16 options (six forestry).

AXIS 2 Improving the environment and the countryside by supporting land management. 47 options, basically farm conservation with three woodland options.

AXIS 3 Improving the quality of life in rural areas and encouraging diversification of economic activity. 12 options mostly land management development.

Out of the 75 options, specific RDC-RP forestry measures are as follows:

AXIS 1
8. Short rotation coppice
10. Renewable energy
11. Improving the economic value of forests
12. Processing and marketing of primary products
13. Co-operation – forestry supply chain
14. Upgrading infrastructure – forest road access

AXIS 2
45. Woodland creation
46. Sustainable management of forests
47. Woodland Improvement Grant.

Note Option 1 relates to organic farming and options 2-44 inclusive are basically farm conservation measures similar to those contained in the old Rural Stewardship Scheme. However, these also include generic options that provide grant for work such as rhododendron control, grey squirrel control and predator control previously supported through SFGS.

The actual grants available for woodland creation, restocking (now referred to as restructuring) and management can be summarised as follows:

Short Rotation Coppice – This grant has now been reduced to £616/ha (£770/ha in LFA) with a minimum of 2ha.

Woodland Creation RDC-RP

Remember the small scale planting options available under the LMO Scheme. See above

A range of grants are available for establishing new woods. These have been simplified compared to the old SFGS in that now only an area rate is paid with the addition of fencing, no ground preparation or tree guards are separately funded. However a maintenance grant is paid out for five years following planting. The area rates vary from £840/ha for Sitka spruce to £1,575 for productive broadleaves, though there is a £50/£150/ha supplement for genetically improved Sitka spruce stock by seed/veg’ prop’ respectively. The five year maintenance payments vary from £112/ha/year to £161/ha/year. See Table 1 for full details.

A useful supplement of £1,000/ha is available for new ‘community’ woodlands near centres of population over 2000 people.

Table 1 – Woodland Creation Grants

Woodland Type	Min. wood or individual block size planted per year (hectares)		Composition	Min. stocking density per hectare at year 5 or when considered to be ‘established’	Initial planting payment per hectare	Five year annual maintenance payment per hectare
Productive conifer woodland (low cost)	5.0		- up to 85% conifers but predominantly spruce - at least 5% broadleaves - up to 10% open ground	Spruce – 2500 Broadleaves – 1100	£840	£112 (x 5 = £560)
Productive conifer woodland (high cost)	5.0		- up to 85% other conifers, e.g. SP, DF, Larch - at least 5% broadleaves - up to 10% open ground	Pine – 3000 DF, Larch – 2000 Broadleaves – 1100	£980	£133 (x 5 = £665)
Productive broadleaved woodland	2.0		- at least 85% productive broadleaves, e.g. Oak, Be, Syc, Ash - up to 5% other broadleaves - up to 10% open ground	Oak, BE – 3100 Syc, Ash – 2500 Other BLF – 1100	£1,575	£161 (x 5 = £805)
Native woodland	0.25		- at least 75% species native to the locality and appropriate to the site - up to 25% open ground	1600	£875	£154 (x 5 = £770)
Naturally regenerated native woodland	0.25		- at least 75% species native to the locality - up to 25% open ground	1600	£630	£70 (x 5 = £350)
Mixed conifer/broadleaf woodland	0.25		- at least 80% mixed conifer and broadleaves, the latter being at least half of the planted area with no less than 25% conifer - up to 20% open ground	Conifer – 2500 Broadleaves – 1600	£1,470	£154 (x 5 = £770)
Additional payments for the planting of genetically improved Sitka spruce, £50 (seed) and £150 (veg’ prop’) if used in the productive conifer low cost option.
Fencing support is as follows:
Stock fencing, £2.80/m Gate, £70 each Deer fencing, £4.83/m		Gate, £119 each Badger gate, £77 each
The additional Community Woodland Contribution is £1,000/ha, for woodlands with specific public access and where at least 50% of the planting is located within 1km of the homes of 2000 or more people. This is paid out with the initial planting and fencing payouts.
Farmland Premium This remains as before, providing farmers with income for 10 or 15 years in lieu of agricultural income foregone. £60, £160, £230 and £300/ha for unimproved, SDA, DA and lowland respectively. Min area 1ha, max. 200ha. 10 years for the two productive conifer options, 15 for the others.

Farmland Premium

This scheme continues the theme of paying farmers an annual payment in lieu of agricultural income foregone for putting land into trees. The original scheme, The Farm Woodland Scheme which began in the late 1980’s pays out for periods up to 40 years. This was replaced by the Farm Woodland Premium Scheme in 1992 which paid out slightly larger payments but only for periods of 10 or 15 years. Its rates and rules have been improved over time and it became the Farmland Premium under the short lived SFGS. It now continues under the RDC-RP much as before. It pays out £60/ha for unimproved land, and £160/£230/£300/ha for improved land in the LFA SDA, LFA DA and lowland areas respectively. There is a maximum of 200ha per holding starting afresh with this new scheme so previous FWS/FWPS/FP is not counted towards the 200ha max. Payments last ten years for the productive conifer forests and fifteen years for broadleaved and mixed species woodlands. To qualify as a ‘farmer’ at least 25% of your income relating to the IACS registered land must be from an agricultural activity. This is a new definition.

Restocking and Managing Woodlands

Grant aid for restocking woodlands has been a contentious topic for many a year. Over time the rates have gone up and down. The Forestry Commission had to fight hard to maintain some sort of grant aid for restocking. They have achieved this by calling it restructuring felling grant supplemented by a one-off tree planting grant of sorts. These are summarized below as are the new range of woodland improvement grants and pruning/thinning grants. These grants can be grouped as follows:

1. Support for Felling and Regenerating Woodlands

Sustainable management grant for restructuring felling @ £130/ha/year for 4 years following felling of a coupe.
From 2011 an approved Forest Plan will be required for woodlands over 30ha.
A grant of £14/ha for the first 200ha (£3.50/ha thereafter) is available towards the cost of Plan preparation.
Woodland improvement one-off grant for restructuring/replanting with different tree species.
- with conifers (other than Sitka spruce) £134/ha
- with mixed broadleaves £300/ha
- with native broadleaves £385/ha
- with Caledonian Scots pine £313/ha

2. Support for Woodland Management (75% grant, some will increase to 100%)

Woodland improvement grant for sustainable woodland management:-
- managing native woodlands (inc PAWS) £28/ha/year for 10 years.
- Stock removal from native woodland £41/ha/year for 10 years.
- Low impact silvicultural systems management £28/ha/year for 10 years.
- Areas subject to high levels of access £28/ha/year for 10 years.
- Reducing deer numbers £21/ha.
- Re-spacing natural regeneration £350/ha.
- Pre-commercial and non-commercial thinning £105/ha.
- Small scale thinning £210/ha.
- Chipping/mulching £350/ha.
- Dead wood management £28/ha.
- Fence removal £1.40/m.
- Small scale planting (< 0.25ha) £1.40/tree/shrub.
- Control of invasive non-native species (£various).

3. Support for Improving Non-Woodland Habitat

- e.g. removal of tree crops, blocking drains etc. – various rates.

4. Support for Improving Economic Value of Woodlands (50% grant)

- Early pruning £125/ha.
- High pruning £200/ha.
- Pre-commercial thinning £75/ha.
- Controlling grey squirrels £16/£27/ha.
- Re-spacing natural regeneration £250/ha.

To be eligible for the support under items 2 (annual payments) and 4 you must have an approved Forest Plan. For small woodlands this will be a concise two page document.

RDP- RP Application Process

It is a two stage process. A Statement of Intent is firstly submitted. If this is given an amber light you proceed to full proposal submission.

Finally, the Forestry Commission are providing two Challenge Funds. Woodlands In and Around Towns (WIAT) and a new one Forestry For People.

So it is obvious to see from all of the above that there is a great range of grant aid support available for forestry. What still remains unknown at this stage is how well will the application process operate and most importantly, what percentage of applications will be approved.

For more information simply Google ‘Rural Priorities’ or contact us:

Eamonn Wall & Co
15 West Burnside
Dollar
FK14 7DP
Tel: 01259 743212
Fax: 01259 743073
e: consultants@eamonnwall.co.uk

Farm Conservation Grants (SRDP-RP)

The Scottish Government launched their new portfolio of land management grants on April 7th under the auspices of the Scottish Rural Development Programme. Previous grant schemes operated by the Forestry Commission (SFGS), Rural Payments and Inspection Directorate (e.g. RSS) and SNH (Land Care) have all been subsumed into the SRDP under its umbrella grant scheme Rural Development Programme - Rural Priorities.

New Farm Conservation Grant Scheme

Grants for farm conservation works are now available under the new Scottish Rural Development Programme (SRDP). This part of the scheme replaces the now closed Rural Stewardship Scheme.

Within the SRDP Rural Development Contracts – Rural Priorities provides competitive Tier 3 grant aid support for a wide range of farm conservation activities.

Scotland has been subdivided into eleven regions and a committee (RPAC – Rural Priorities Assessment Committee) set up in each region to establish its priorities for grant aid which covers all land management grants such as farm conservation, woodlands and business development. All RP grant applications have to be approved by the RPAC which meets periodically.

Tier 2 grant aid is also available for farm conservation works under the Land Managers Options which replaces the old Land Managers Contracts Menu Scheme.

RDC-RP grants for improving the environment and countryside replace the previous RSS and CPS schemes. RP is a competitive scheme and success rates at this stage are unknown. As before there are a range of annual management grants (e.g. water margins) and enabling one-off capital grants (e.g. fencing).

The management options are as follows, based on a five year commitment

The full range of Management Options is as follows:-

1. Organic farming, various
2. Wild bird seed mix/unharvested crop, £391/ha
3. Mown grassland for wildlife, £174/ha
4. Mown grassland for corn buntings, £224/ha
5. Mown grassland for corncrakes, £271, £381, £691/ha
6. Grazed grassland for corncrakes, £313/ha
7. Creation and management of cover for corncrakes, £800/ha
8. Management of cover for corncrakes, £162/ha
9. Open grazed or wet grassland for wildlife, £111/ha
10. Mammal and bird control, variable
11. Supplementary food provision for raptors, variable
12. Wardening for golden eagles, variable
13. Control of invasive non-native species, £850 or £3,500/ha
14. Management of species rich grassland, £111/ha
15. Bracken management programme for habitat enhancement, £28/ha
16. Creation and management of species rich grassland, £223/ha
17. Management of habitat mosaics, £104/ha
18. Management of wetland, £90/ha
19. Create, restore and manage wetland, £227/ha
20. Management/restoration of lowland raised bogs, £40/ha + £43/ha
21. Water margins and enhanced riparian buffer areas, £294/ha
22. Management of flood plains, £39/ha
23. Buffer areas for fens and lowland raised bogs, £269/ha
24. Coastal or serpentine heath, £77, £44 and £1.30/ha
25. Lowland heath, £123/ha
26. Wildlife management on upland and peatland sites, 70p/ha
27. Management of moorland grazing, £1.30/ha
28. Moorland grazings on uplands and peatlands, £2/ha
29. Moorland – stock disposal, £20/ha
30. Away-wintering of sheep, £21/ha
31. Off-wintering of sheep, £9/ha
32. Muirburn and heather swiping, £67/ha
33. Management of hedgerows, 93p/m
34. Extended hedges, 53p/m
35. Grass margins and beetlebanks, £473/ha
36. Biodiversity cropping on in-bye, £70/ha or £400/ha
37. Cropped machair, £233/£279/ha
38. Management of ancient wood pasture, £50/£105/ha
39. Scrub and tall herb communities, £94/ha
40. Arable reversion to grassland, £250/ha
41. Habitat grazing management, £7.82/hour
42. Livestock tracks, gates and river crossings, 40% - 50% of costs
43. Conservation management for small units, various

Capital options – 48 activities are listed, the most common ones being:

Hedge planting, £4.30/m
Stock fencing, £4/m
Stock gates, £100 each
Single trees, £100 each
Post and rail fencing, £10m.

Application Process

It is a two stage process. A Statement of Intent is firstly submitted. If this is given an amber light you proceed to full proposal submission.

For more information Google ‘Rural Priorities’.

Woodland Investment Opportunities
Why Invest in Forestry?

Steady natural growth of forests combined with attractive incentives;

A natural physically growing commodity, biological growth is about 5% per annum;

A tangible asset you can visit;

Tax free returns;

Grants available towards cost of management activities;

Increasing demand for timber for woodfuel, CO² reduction, increasing world populations, restrictions on timber felling in some countries and an expanding timber processing industry in Scotland has strengthened demand for timber in the UK and especially in Scotland;

Low correlation to equities and commercial properties;

Currently increasing agricultural land values. Investment returns on amenity woods comes from an increase in asset value rather than timber growth;

Low management costs in relation to crop value;

Scottish Government committed to enhancing the forest industry and increasing forest cover.

Tax Incentives

Income generated from timber sales is free from income and corporation tax;
Forestry (both land and trees) attracts 100% relief from Inheritance Tax if held for two years;
Forestry grants are tax free;
Increasing timber values are exempt from Capital Gains Tax. Only any real increase in land values is liable to CGT, but this is usually argued to be not the case. Any land increase would be taxed at the new flat rate of 18%. However the land value of a mature plantation currently only accounts for approximately 15% of the asset value;
Roll-over relief for CGT liability arising from the sale of a business asset.

How to Invest?

Eamonn Wall & Co assist woodland purchases through two investment vehicles:

Individual purchases – register with us to find a wood for you;
Syndicate purchases (i.e. groups of investors form a syndicate to invest over an agreed time frame) with Eamonn Wall & Co as investor/manager;
‘Scottish Forestry Investment Fund’ – we are currently researching this vehicle.

Values

Woods can be bought from £30,000 up to and over £1m. Prices per acre vary depending on the size, age, location, condition etc of the wood but in the region £700 - £2,500 per acre (occasionally more). Usually the smaller woods (say £50,000) attract a small wood premium. Bare land can be bought and planted with the help of grant aid and annual payments.

Next Step

Eamonn Wall has now been established for 16 years and has much experience of investment forestry and woodland management. We help you find the woodland to suit your requirements: amenity -v- commercial , conifers -v- broadleaves, location, bare land, young (0-10 years), mid term (15-30 years) or mature plantations (35 years plus). We then carry out the management and act as investor/chairman of syndicates and as fund/forest managers.

Please contact us if you require further information.

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