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Strange I thought this was what a wood yard was for, as well as the production of wood products and we do own two ourselves.
I am assisting a friend in with getting the Certificate of Lawful Development our council claims he needs on the 2 acre one he is renting. It has existed as one since the early 1980’s.
In a phone call to the council officer this morning he claimed that ‘it is being used to store timber sourced from elsewhere’!!! “Just how is anyone expected to be able to make wood products without any stock?” I asked. His reply was “By using the timber on the site”.
Now you do not need to know anything about the forestry work to know that trees take time to grow, you cut chestnut coppice & then wait 15 years for it to grow again. On the site I am talking about the buildings/driveway and parking area takes up half an acre. The rough scrubby wood surrounding it actually screens it from the lane, if cut down completely it will take years to regrow.

Idiots at the end of the phone ... that's what they are ... Ask your local newspaper what you should do they might have all the answers :-S And that might get the CC to think again :-S

What are they saying? That woodyards should only be located in forests?

Right...... move the woodyard to a forest.

OK......... cut down the trees.

Now what?

Do these people think?????????

It is amazing the things you learn.

If a wood yard was used as such for 30years, then abandoned for 12years on the death of the owner it stops being a wood yard, but a shop would still be a shop and you would not need to apply again for planning permission :-S

All the young chap wants to do is to sell a few logs and make a living. Everyone wants seasoned logs that burn well, they need to be stored some where and surely in a small yard up a back lane is an ideal spot.

Just another way to hit rural trades & get money out of them.

i lived in SE London in a Victorian House that used to have stables at the back of the run of terrace houses,

I remember in WW1 the stables which was then a wood yard that ran along the track side of the Railway as it left Charlton Station to go to Woolwich Dockyard and then on to Dartford.

They handled wood that must have been bought in as the area was residential. remember only too well the saw noises as they cut wood down.

mum said when she was young in 1911 plus the houses were gentry and the woodyard was then the stables for the horses.

All I remember was we had to have cats cos mice and rats from the wood yard were a problem

i HATED em with . am still terrified of darting long tailed critters

Looks like something to do with the difference between forestry and industrial use.

Looks like something to do with the difference between forestry and industrial use.