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Forestry & Timber News FORESTRY & TIMBER NEWS February 2018 Issue 85 THE SYCAMORE GAP THE INVESTMENT DIVIDE Forestry and Timber News_Forestry_Chris Pratt_Chainsaw 1_297x210.indd 1 15/01/2018 15:15 CONTENTS NEWS & COMMENT 51 | WOOD FOR GOOD Confor is a membership organisation 5 | EDITORIAL 57 | TIMBER TRANSPORT that promotes sustainable forestry and TREES GET POPULAR VOTE BUT GILLIAN CLARK INTRODUCES wood-using businesses. CHALLENGES TO PLANTING A NEW CAMPAIGN FOR THE Confor members receive Forestry and REMAIN TIMBER TRANSPORT SECTOR Timber News for free as part of their 6 | INVESTMENT FORESTRY 60 | SMALL WOODLAND membership. 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HARDWOOD AUCTION ASKS ARAN SENA For advertising, contact Chloe Hine TIMBER AUCTIONS MARKET 58 | STAKEHOLDER 01502 725835 REPORT ENGAGEMENT [email protected] TIMBER MARKET REPORT: HARNESSING THE POWER Printed by Micropress Printers Ltd SHORTAGES PUSH UP PRICES OF MAPS Paul Vidgen Forest Machines Ltd Forest Keep, Watersplash Lane, Ascot, Berkshire, SL5 7QP Tel: 01344 873499 Email: [email protected] Web: www.pvfm.co.uk Sole UK importers and dealers for; AHWI/Prinoth, Naturatec, Bruks Chippers, Trevi Benne Forestry Attachments, UOT Scarifiers & Mounders, King Kong Carbide Tools Dealers for; BerCon Log Splitters, FTG Baltic Trailers and Cranes. EDITORIAL Paul Vidgen Forest Machines Ltd Trees get the popular vote but challenges to planting remain STUART GOODALL CHIEF EXECUTIVE, CONFOR lanting trees is set to become even change required to keep the UK on track to more popular. And not just street meet its commitments. trees or trees in schools, but large The low-hanging fruit has been secured P woodlands, even new forests. and the fortuitous developments are unlikely We have climate change to ‘thank’ for that, to be repeated at scale – in fact we’re seeking and the scale of governmental ambition. to rebalance the economy in favour of At Kyoto and then Paris, rich, developed manufacturing. Meeting our targets will be countries (the US Government less so) eye-wateringly painful - no gas, virtually no agreed to shoulder the greatest burden oil, near energy-free houses, all cars using of reducing greenhouse gases in the renewable electricity, emission slashed in atmosphere, especially carbon. farming, etc, etc. Initially everything went well, and Governments are also talking again about emissions dropped across the UK, though Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS), though an examination of the figures shows that without any sense of a solution. Nevertheless, much was due to de-industrialisation. In it allows them, on paper, to help fill the agriculture, significant reduction took place widening gap between projected reductions as CAP reform led to sharp falls in live-stock from current policy and what’s required. numbers. The Committee on Climate Change, set up Progress has been made, for example in to advise the UK and devolved governments decarbonising electricity – think wind on progress with targets and to assess farms, but there hasn’t been their future plans, has been touring the UK. enough change in behaviour The conclusion is that the gap is widening or in the ‘infrastructure’ between what’s required and the reductions of industry, energy expected to be delivered by current policies generation or in driving and plans. energy efficiency. Too CCS is unproven and expensive. Tree Forest Keep, Watersplash Lane, Ascot, Berkshire, SL5 7QP much has occurred planting is very cheap in comparison and Tel: 01344 873499 Email: [email protected] Web: www.pvfm.co.uk through unconnected a well-proven ‘technology’. It also yields a events that would have myriad of other benefits. And then there’s the happened anyway. carbon locked up in our home-grown wood It may still take products – set to be recognised formally in some time to develop a future carbon balances. critical mass, but more I expect that we will have more and more Sole UK importers and and more politicians attention placed on tree planting (and and commentators wood production) in the years to come. dealers for; AHWI/Prinoth, are examining the However, I’m not convinced we yet have Naturatec, Bruks Chippers, underlying trend and the administrative tools and processes to Trevi Benne Forestry looking forward to respond, meaning there’s a danger that as the next step- people come knocking we will (frustratingly) Attachments, UOT see their attention turn elsewhere. Scarifiers & Mounders, That can’t be allowed to happen, and King Kong Carbide Confor will fight to ensure that it does not. Tools Dealers for; BerCon Log Splitters, FTG Baltic Trailers and Cranes. INVESTMENT FORESTRY The Sycamore Gap A North-South investment divide Headlines about a new northern forest turn. Mike Tustin of John Clegg and Co said that in England, announced in Defra’s “There is simply more bureaucracy in forestry in England than in Scotland; bureaucracy costs times recent 25-Year Environment Plan, and money and no one is willing to pay for it.” don’t address some of the Jason Sinden added “What we need is greater long-term challenges and risks for certainty, we are happy to work with open areas forestry investors. Andrew Heald and broadleaves but it is the ‘unknowns’ and deal- (Confor) and Jason Sinden (FIM) ing with the personal opinions of regulators which raise an important issue. makes investing unattractive. The grant money is there and local Forestry Commission England staff he south of Scotland and the north of Eng- are generally supportive but it is still a huge risk to land both have good road access, suitable purchase land in England and then try to get permis- soils, a range of mills and timber proces- sion to plant.” Tsors. However, whilst large-scale investors Andy Howard of Doddington thinks that one of are confidently starting new planting schemes in the challenges in England is the number of Gov- Scotland, south of Hadrian’s Wall thing are a little ernment agencies that need to work together to different. The recent announcement of approval for approve an application; Andy said “One of the key Lowther Estate’s ‘Jack’s Wood’ and for Doddington lessons from Doddington was to get FC England, (see FTN December 2017) are hopefully signs of sig- Natural England and the Rural Payments Agency to nificant change in forestry creation in England. all agree with each other, before we started having We need to be able Woodland creation schemes in Scotland this year conversations with them.” to give forestry are heading for 250ha, with an average size of 35ha A single agency approach should work well, but “ for productive schemes. Schemes the size of Dod- in Wales the benefit of a single regulator in NRW has investors a clear dington (268ha net) are significant in Scotland but also failed to deliver significant new planting, due risk assessment certainly wouldn’t attract front page news coverage partly to a complex scoring system which prioritises of the likelihood in the Daily Telegraph. new woodland near towns, which often have high of success, that is It is not just the size of the creation schemes that costs related to public access and are less attractive impossible with the differ it is a question of who is doing the planting. to timber production. The big difference is that large-scale investors are Lack of familiarity with woodland creation and current application currently only operating in Scotland; availability of with modern forestry in general is clearly an issue, process in England.
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