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Forests and woodland

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  • 21-02-2008 4:16pm
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    Crave
    Registered Users Posts: 519 ✭✭✭


    Can you rent forests or buy them and if so where do you look for a list of them?


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    The_Conductor
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    Crave wrote: »
    Can you rent forests or buy them and if so where do you look for a list of them?

    Errr- quite a few of the pension funds, esp. those administered by ILP, have invested heavily in woodland and forestry- esp. given its very favourable tax treatment. The reason you can't rent forests/woodland is largely down to insurance problems, particularly given the number of accidental (and a few deliberate) forest fires and destruction of machinery which has happened over the last 10-15 years. It really depends on what you have in mind though. It may be possible to approach an owner with a proposal and organise your own insurance- but its something you should contact the different insurance companies about in advance just to confirm you have a viable business model for what you have in mind.


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    Crave
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    would the best approach be to find some forest/woodland i want and then try find out who owns it? how would i do this, does the county council have a list?


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    The_Conductor
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    Crave wrote: »
    would the best approach be to find some forest/woodland i want and then try find out who owns it? how would i do this, does the county council have a list?

    Have a list?
    Any forestry above 2 hectares (I'm open to correction on the exact area) planted since 2001 needs planning permission. They would have these planning permission of young plantations on file. Older, more mature, plantations are a different matter altogether. Coillte are far and away the largest owner of woodland in the country- followed by the pension funds. Coillte do have a commercialisation unit, which deals with generating income from other than timber sales. If you contact their Newtownmountkennedy office they will probably be able to give you details.

    Re: private forestry- for insurance reasons, I would be most surprised if a private landowner allowed access such as you are suggesting to their properties. If you explore the possibility of organising private insurance for your activities- you would have a much stronger case to make to a private land owner.

    Good luck!


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    Oldtree
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    once you located a piece of land you may be interested in, find it on an accurate OS rural place map and do a land registry search to find the owners name and then get a copy folio. Then approach the landowner.......


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