For sale: all of our forests. Not some of them, nor most of them – the whole lot

[nuggets]

What i meant to say, was the crown own the mineral deposits -except in sutherland!! - all the rest is hers !!

 

[Toddy]

The mineral deposits under mine belonged to the Coal Board, the Council owns them now.

M

 

[nuggets]

The mineral deposits under mine belonged to the Coal Board, the Council owns them now.

M

just agents for HM government !!

 

[Radix lecti]

Signed in hope.

 

[Toddy]

just agents for HM government !!

And that's mince too; and it still doesn't mean the Queen owns's it

Back to the thread.
Toddy

 

[nuggets]

And that's mince too; and it still doesn't mean the Queen owns's it

Back to the thread.
Toddy

so who does it belong too then ??? The NCB was what ?? national coal board !! nationalized by who ??? the government perhaps !!! Her Majesties Government even ???

 

[Toddy]

The National Coal Board became the repository of all the little mining companies before Nationalisation Since the mining industry is so contracted from it's former 'glory', much of the accumulation of 'rights' have been passed to local councils.
One can buy the mineral rights to an area, but it's a big area. There's no way they want to have to deal with mineral rights on a house to house (gawd help them under a towerblock) basis.
Companies regularly buy and sell these large area rights.
In Scotland just now it's for gold mining. Landowners of big land parcels generally do own the mineral rights to their lands as well.

Toddy

 

[Big_bazza99]

Surely the only issue is if the land ceases to be managed in a sustainable way, replanting after the mature wood has been harvested. Any commercial concern would not survive for long if they try to take a short term gain without planting for the future - I would imagine that the capital outlay over a 2 year period would be far in excess of the return on the wood. I also think that the more mature (and aged) woodland should remain protected (believe this was part of the original proposal - from a previous thread that covered this).

I am very fortunate, having recently purchased 7.5 acres of woodland which I intend to properly manage - currently overplanted and unmanaged, but contains an excellent range of oak, birch, beech, holly and scots pine (and some fabulous mushrooms, blackberries and deer). I am also looking at what bird life is in the woods and will be looking to try to encourage additional species.

 

[hogstable]

Very enlightened Bazza, wish there were more like that. I was chatting to the Forestry people in the summer before the spending review came out and they were saying they were planting more broad leaf species for log burners etc. Not sure if private companies would think like that though, fast ish buck I reckon.

Just another case of selling off the family silver, won't be political on this one but very annoyed at it all.

 

[Grayfox]

taken from guardian.co.uk - For sale: all of our forests. Not some of them, nor most of them – the whole lot:


Well this is good news for me as I'm thinking of buying a wood. However If they're only selling it off in lots of hundreds or thousands of acres then that may stretch my budget a little beyond breaking point.