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Forestry and Woodland

Well-managed woodland pays for itself, and often for more than that.
Our forestry and woodland advice helps you unlock commercial revenue, sporting potential and carbon sequestration from land that might otherwise sit unmanaged. Whether you are planning new planting, navigating a grant scheme, or bringing an existing wood into your wider estate strategy, we can help.

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Forestry and woodland management, joined up with your wider estate

Forestry and woodland advice matters most when it is joined up with the rest of your estate, not treated as a separate concern. Well-managed woodland can generate commercial revenue, sporting potential and carbon sequestration, alongside the enhanced amenity value it brings to the land around it.

We work with farmers, landowners and rural estates across Kent, Sussex and Surrey, whether you are managing existing woodland, navigating a grant scheme, or planning new planting from scratch. As Chartered Surveyors, we bring the same rigour to forestry as we do to the rest of your estate, so the woodland strategy and the wider one stay aligned rather than pulling in different directions.

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Alex Wilks
MRICS FAAV
Pulborough

01798 877555
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Harry Broadbent-Combe
MRICS FAAV
Surrey Hills

01483 617697
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Rows of young trees in protective guards on a new planting site

Your woodland could also be a carbon asset

Woodland creation and management can generate verified carbon credits under schemes like the Woodland Carbon Code, on top of the commercial, sporting and amenity value it already provides. If you are planting new woodland or managing existing cover, it is worth finding out what that could be worth before treating it purely as a cost.

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Common questions about forestry and woodland management

The Forestry Commission’s England Woodland Creation Offer (EWCO) covers planting from as little as 1 hectare, made up of blocks of 0.1 hectares or more, so it’s accessible even if you don’t have a large area to dedicate to it. It pays towards establishment costs, then annual maintenance payments for ten years.

Yes. Well-managed woodland can provide commercial timber revenue, sporting potential, carbon credits and enhanced amenity value, often at the same time, rather than one benefit ruling out the others.

In most cases, yes. Felling more than a small volume of timber usually needs a felling licence from the Forestry Commission, and works to ancient woodland or protected trees carry extra restrictions.

Woodland works best when it’s managed alongside the rest of your estate rather than in isolation, so grant schemes, sporting use and any carbon income all line up with your broader plans rather than pulling in different directions.

Plantation forestry involves planting and harvesting on a rotation, while natural regeneration lets existing trees reseed the surrounding area naturally. Most estates use a mix of both, depending on the woodland’s history and condition.