Traditional Management
Oakwood West Estate is managed sensitively to protect and enhance biodiversity. Traditional coppicing methods and hedge laying techniques provide low carbon materials and create bountiful habitats for wildlife.
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Grown in Britain
We're proud to have Grown in Britain certification.
It's a groundbreaking scheme designed to enhance the UK timber industry by protecting, enhancing and increasing woodlands and to ensure that harvesting is done in a responsible way. It aims to reduce imports of timber into the UK, whilst promoting healthy and biodiverse woodland management for a strong economy, the recovery of nature and the wellbeing of all. It's an assurance that any product that you buy from us has been produced in our woodland in a legal and sustainable way.
The Trees
Oakwood West has fantastic diversity in its material makeup. It is termed as PAWS, Plantation on Ancient Woodland Site, but different areas have developed and been managed (or not managed) in different ways in years gone by.
We have some lovely swathes of Sweet Chestnut and Hazel coppice which we are slowly bringing into a rotation that suits our needs, and the woodland's ecological needs. This provides fantastic potential habitat for dormice, butterflies, hedgehogs and other native and endangered species.
We have areas of dense conifer and other areas where the native oak is pushing through and the conifer has been thinned to favour these majestic trees. Oakwood West is a for woodland in which to see a plethora of woodland practices and management, ecology and landscape.
Woodland Products
We sell timber for building, cladding, and carpentry from our woodland near Chichester. Our holiday lodges, pictured below, and woodland barns were built and clad using timber from the woodland. We also have coppice products and charcoal available for sale, subject to availability.
If you would like more information about the wood that is available for sale please contact us, or take a look at some examples of our sustainable timber and cladding here.
