Free Buying & selling local timber & wood products from South East England Issue 65, December 2006 Free Classified Advertising: Round Timber for Sale Round Timber Wanted Sawn Timber Timber Processing Services Sustainable Wood Fuel Fencing, Horticultural & Garden Furniture & Finished Products Timber Buildings & Architecture Coppice/Woodland Management Equipment & Machinery Courses & Training Jobs & Opportunities Events & Meetings Publications & Websites WEALD Promoting the sustainable production and use of hardwood The interior ceiling of the Savill Building Visitor Centre at Windsor Great Park, Winner of Winners at the Wood Awards timbers in South East England 2006. West Sussex based Green Oak Carpentry, design consultants and builders of the Savill Building’s larch © Woodnet 2006 gridshell, won Best Use of British Timber and Katie Walker won both Furniture & Innovation. See p.5. Photo J Martin Deadline for next issue: 26th January 2007 www.woodlots.org.uk WoodLots: Welcome to the ‘new look’ WoodLots. When the cost of posting A4 Promoting the sustainable envelopes increased dramatically earlier this year redesigning WoodLots management of woodlands in the into a smaller format became a necessity. We’ve aimed to achieve this with South East and the use of local minimal change - I hope you find the new layout easy to get around. Feel timber. Available in East Sussex, West Sussex, Kent, London, Surrey, free to offer your feedback. Hampshire, the Isle of Wight and at www.woodlots.org.uk We’ve increased page numbers and, with space to fill, we can encourage more display advertising to help pay for the free service. Equally, I Information & networking for local timber producers, wood users and all encourage you to contribute your ideas, letters, feedback, news items, related organisations & businesses. editor’s comment photos etc. Our contact details are shown in the column to the right and Editorial, articles & news items from on the back page of the magazine and you’ll find a simple subscription previous issues, subscription and advertising information available at form and information about placing new advertisements on p.31 (the inside www.woodlots.org.uk back page). Display Advertising: available at The seasonal search for gifts is upon us - I encourage you to take a fresh competitive rates in both full colour and black & white. Please contact the look at WoodLots and aim to find some if not all of your Christmas gifts from Editor for further information these pages. In particular, Garden & Horticulture, Fine Furniture & Finished 1600+ copies distributed throughout Products, Courses & Training, Events and Publications all contain potential the South East 5 times a year gifts that support the local rural economy, celebrate the versatility and Send your advertisements renewability of wood and have a relatively high novelty factor. Books and requests for WoodLots to about wood, products crafted from local wood, creative experiences with the Editor: Jenny Martin, Weald wood or in woodlands - this is the stuff of WoodLots! WoodNet, The Woodland Enterprise Centre, Hastings Road, Flimwell, This issue includes news about developments at the Woodland Enterprise East Sussex, TN5 7PR Centre, an update on the Forestry Commissions pilot Woodland Harvesting, Tel: 01580 879552 Email: [email protected] Processing & Marketing Grant, news from the Wood Awards 2006, updates Web: www.woodlots.org.uk on WoodNet’s activities and of course lots of timber related advertisements. Deadline for next issue: 26th January 2007 Jenny Martin, WoodLots Editor 3 Printed by Beard Digital, Brighton 2 Training Opportunties at the WEC WoodNet & Plumpton College are working in partnership to deliver a programme of training and advice based at the Woodland Enterprise Centre on the Sussex/Kent border. As of January 2007, Plumpton College will be offering chainsaw, felling, climbing, brushcutter and sawmilling from the woodland based venue. For more information about Plumpton’s activities at the WEC please contact: The Professional Development Office at Plumpton College, Tel: 01273 890454, www.plumpton.ac.uk HOMEGROWN TIMBER LTD New Woodland Classroom Local Timber News Supplying wood fuel throughout UK. Round As of January 2007 the WoodNet Seminar Room at the timber, forestry & arboricultural arisings Woodland Enterprise Centre near Flimwell will be available to hire always wanted, please call to discuss for meetings, training, seminars, weekly groups, etc. Suitable for - Woodchip for green energy 16 seated at desks or 32 seated without desks. - Timber merchants & sawmillers For booking information please contact Jenny Martin, T: 01580 - Forestry Contractors 879552, email: [email protected], www.woodnet.org.uk - Forest & Woodland Management - Fencing & Landscape Contractors New Biomass Energy Centre - Tree Surgery - Approved Contractor Following the Government’s pledge in their response to the Biomass - Pond & Heathland Restoration - Ecology & Environment specialists Taskforce Report earlier this year to create a single point of contact - Ride Clearance & Hedgelaying on biomass, you can now find the Biomass Energy Centre online at: - Herbicide Contractors www.biomassenergycentre.org.uk - Japanese Knotweed specialists West Sussex Log List Cherry Tree Sawmills, Faygate Lane West Sussex County Council have produced a leaflet listing Faygate, Horsham, West Sussex RH12 4SJ firewood merchants across the county, including useful Tel: 01293 852700 Fax: 01293 852701 information on woodfuel and wood burning stove suppliers, for Mobile: 07774 447956 those who are considering switching to this sustainable fuel. To Email: [email protected] request a copy tel: 01243 642119. An online version is available at Website: www.homegrowntimber.com www.westsussex.gov.uk, type ‘Log List’ into search option 3 whad 24/10/06 11:15 Page 1 Market Research for the Wood Processing Sector For readable, clear in South East England technical advice... Weald WoodNet have embarked on a research project with the University of Brighton, Centre for Sustainability of the Built Environment, to investigate the amount of home-grown timber used in the construction industry in the SE Region. The research is intended to assist the development of more effective industry clusters with the Local Timber News aim of marketing the benefits of locally-supplied timber as a low embodied energy building material. During the course of the study Weald WoodNet will be approaching a number of wood processing and timber merchant business in the region to gather information about their current capacity and specialist interests. The outcomes of this work will integrate with the forthcoming review of the South East Regional Forestry Framework being carried out by the Forestry and ...use our widely acclaimed, Woodlands Partnership. A better understanding of the local supply chain may help to unlock funding to develop waterproof durable leaflets. better ways for small-scale producers to access the growing markets for sustainable timber in construction. Please send SAE for 32p to: For further information, and to register any expressions of WOODLAND HERITAGE interest in participating in the research, please contact Arundell House, Haslemere, GU27 1NE David Saunders at Woodland Enterprise Centre Tel/Fax: 01428 652159 e-mail: [email protected] www.woodlandheritage.org.uk Tel: 01580 879552 Email: [email protected] 4 Winning South East ways at the Wood Awards 2006 5 South East Award Winners The Green Oak Carpentry Company won Best The Wood Awards provide a unique and Use of British Timber at the Wood Awards 2006 exciting opportunity to see some of the best in for their consistent high quality work in British today’s buildings and furniture and to celebrate wood, which can be seen in projects such as the our only renewable and sustainable building Weald & Downland Gridshell, Chithurst Buddhist material. These annual awards have helped to Monastery and The Savill Building on the Crown raise the profile of wood in construction and Estate at Windsor. furniture-making by recognising, encouraging and promoting outstanding design, crafts- The Savill Building utilises larch from the Crown Estate manship and installation in wood. in a highly engineered gridshell form resulting in an Originally established 30 years ago as impressively undulating roof that ‘appears to float the Carpenters Award to celebrate fine above the ground, like a magic carpet’ (Michael woodworking in buildings, the event was Buckley, FIWSc, World Hardwoods). The Green relaunched in 2003 as The Wood Awards. Oak Carpentry Company were both consultant With the help of the Forestry Commission a designers and builders of The Savill Building Visitors’ new category, Best Use of British Timber was Centre, the design taking inspiration from the Weald added in 2004 and this year has seen the and Downland oak gridshell (also built by Green addition of the Furniture category. Oak), a previous Wood Awards winner (2003). For information on all the 2006 winners and The Savill Building won the Commercial & Public entry into The Wood Awards 2007 please go Access category, the Structural category and to: www.woodawards.com, the Gold Award for the best winner from the email: [email protected], architectural-based categories. T: 07957 730707. For Wood Awards Press & PR queries, email: For more information on The Green Oak Carpentry [email protected] Company go to: www.greenoakcarpentry.co.uk 6 Katie Walker’s Ribbon Katie Walker’s elegant ‘Ribbon’