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 WoodLots   News   February 2004 

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Royal Representative
Enjoys Enterprise
The Lord Lieutenant of East Sussex, the Queen’s representative for the County, Mrs Phyllida Stewart-Roberts OBE DL, was warmly welcomed to the Woodland Enterprise Centre in December. She experienced the direct link between chestnut coppice woodlands and the wood heating and architecture, stepping from the typical High Weald woodland into the warm interior of the sweet chestnut gridshell built, clad, floored and heated with locally available timbers. You too can visit the Woodland Enterprise Centre on the morning of 26th March 2004. Booking is essential, for further information contact WoodNet, Tel 01580 879552

Left: Nigel Braden (Inwood Developments) explains the finger jointing technology behind the sweet chestnut gridshell at the Woodland Enterprise Centre to Phyllida Stewart-Roberts, Lord Lieutenant of East Sussex

Winning Woodland Way:
Robert Bazell, a Kent woodland owner, was delighted to win the WoodLots draw for a signed copy of Ben Law’s inspirational book ‘The Woodland Way, a permaculture approach to woodland management’. Robert was one of the many respondents to our survey on the future of WoodLots included in our 50th issue.  Robert has been receiving WoodLots since the very first issue published over eight years ago, and has sold timber and made useful contacts through the free service.

Coppice Woodland 
In Demand
Members of the Sussex & Surrey Coppice Group have very little difficulty selling their products, but getting hold of coppice to cut and owners willing to have their woodlands coppiced is another matter. If you are a woodland owner with coppice in Sussex or Surrey and you are considering bringing your woodland back into cycle, the Sussex & Surrey Coppice Group may be able to help you.  
Contact: Andrew King, Tel: 01825 790495

TimberBuild Network Southeast 
would particularly like to hear from anyone interested in using or supplying sustainably produced local timbers for construction (builders, architects, timber specifiers, self-builders, timber merchants). If you want to know more about local timbers in construction, the TimberBuild Network are here to help. Become a member of the network and meet those already utilising this abundant local resource in contemporary architecture and construction.  

Founding TBN member, the Green Oak Carpentry Company, are currently engaged in design work for a proposed larch gridshell roof for a visitor centre at Windsor Great Park. The larch was sourced on the Windsor Estate within 5 miles of the proposed building.  Other members of the network have been involved in, for example, the construction of the oak gridshell at the Weald & Downland Open Air Museum, the sweet-chestnut gridshell at the Woodland Enterprise Centre and the finger-jointed oak ceiling in the new Scottish Parliament debating chamber.  For more information on the TimberBuild Network visit: www.timberbuild.org. Contact: Stewart Henton, 01580 879552, info@timberbuild.org.uk.              
   
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Hardwood 
Improvement 
Conference
‘Better trees, better profits’ at Stoneleigh Park, Warwickshire Thursday 4 March 2004, followed by a field day at The Northmoor Trust, Forestry Research Centre, Oxfordshire, Thursday 10 June 2004.  Presentations at the event will discuss the quality of British hardwoods, tree improvement, adaptive variation, and the possible impact of climate change for broadleaves in European forests.  (organised by the Royal Forestry Society (RFS) with the The Royal Agricultural Society of England (RASE) and The British & Irish Hardwoods Improvement Programme (BIHIP)). For more details &  to book a place contact:  Sue Archer, 
Tel: 02476 696969, www.rase.org.uk/conferences/better

Woodland Enterprise Venue 
for small or large meetings, conferences and exhibitions, the Woodland Enterprise Centre offers 150 square metres of exhibition and conference space, including a small meeting room, all within 22 hectares of demonstration woodland at Flimwell, just south of Tunbridge Wells on the East Sussex/Kent border.  For bookings throughout 2004 and 2005 please contact:  Weald WoodNet, Tel: 01580 879552, Email:info@woodnet.org.uk

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