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adam2 · Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2011 1:38 pm Post subject:

Well for better or worse the deal is now done.
£2,000 for the land as originly agreed, and another £1,800 for the newly erected building.
I understand that the erection of this building was notified, and in view of its proximity to the house, the homeowner was asked if they had any objection, they did not.

6 dead or dieing trees have already been cut for firewood.
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snow hope · Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2011 8:51 pm Post subject:

Well they sure seem to have got a lot for a small outlay! Good luck to them. Smile

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kenneal - lagger · Posted: Thu Oct 13, 2011 2:49 am Post subject:

Can't lose at that price. The farmer must be nuts.
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adam2 · Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2011 9:26 pm Post subject:

The land is very wet, perhaps more so than I realised.
Still has it uses, but arguably much less desireable than well drained land.

An elderly gent who used to work on the farm described the area as "a sad boggy place, worthless to man or beast"
By no means worthless as a source of firewood, but not much good for anything else.

Alder to be planted as suggested.
Silver birch trees dont look very healthy at all.
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alternative-energy · Joined: 22 Jan 2006 Posts: 235

There are also some very fast growing willow cultivars and new plants can easily be grown from cuttings.

http://www.bowhayestrees.co.uk/willow.html

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ujoni08 · Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2011 12:21 pm Post subject: drainage

Does the plot slope at all? Perhaps some sort of drainage could be dug, filled with small rocks, then recovered with soil, to dry out the plot, and make vegetable growing easier?
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woodburner · Joined: 06 Apr 2009 Posts: 4128

If that's done, then the sentiment stated earlier of saving it from development was a bit insincere. Nowadays there are few wet places for things which require such conditions to live. To drain it would mean one less place.

adam2 · Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2012 9:28 am Post subject:

Present plans do not include drainage, for two reasons, firstly to protect wildlife and secondly fear of causing flooding elswhere since the water would have to go somwhere.
In the summer it was damp, there is now standing water in one small area.
Alder being planted, and dead or dying trees being cut for fire wood.
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eatyourveg · Joined: 15 Jul 2007 Posts: 1284 Location: uk

Alder is totally crap as firewood, but it will grow in those conditions, and surprisingly perhaps so does Ash, which is far from crap as a firewood.
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adam2 · Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2012 11:19 am Post subject:

The existing trees are largely silver birch.
They dont look at all healthy, to my inexpert eye, and some are definatly dead.
Dont know if they have been killed by the water, or just old age.
One that was cut for building timber was rotten inside.
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