'Buy Your Own Wood'

[Glen]

The owners tried to have planning permission retrospectively applied for, but were refused, so they tried unsuccessfully to sell the land on eBay, under the snappy title “Your-very-own-ancient-woodland-to-camp-in-forever” funny thing is that guy wanted £5000 per quarter acre as well.

Someone calling themselves 3140tim was trying to sell bits of woodland for that exact price on Ebay in Nov 06. If my memory serves, which it may not, they were then saying it was the last few plots of Fox Covert.

Maybe it's all fair and up front maybe it's not but I would suggest anyone interested not skip cheking up fully by being rushed into something for fear they may otherwise miss out.

 

[FGYT]

18 people @ 1/4 acre is only 4.5 acres sold at £90,000
guess Tim n partner have the other 9.5 acres as their stake ????

numbers are there all you have to do is decide if thats what you want

at the 1/4 acre you could split it into 56 shares for £280,000

 

[Tourist]

18 people @ 1/4 acre is only 4.5 acres sold at £90,000
guess Tim n partner have the other 9.5 acres as their stake ????

numbers are there all you have to do is decide if thats what you want

at the 1/4 acre you could split it into 56 shares for £280,000

Thats how you make money in the land business. Can I interest you in an ice cream maker at the moment?

 

[Big Mark]

Just wanted to update you all.

The wood has now had it's facelift completed at the weekend and looks absolutely brill.

We've sold all but one of the 18 sections that we released and we've got about five people considering it....but still to make the final sale...

If anyone on Bushcraft is interested we'll knock off £500 as a special Christmas offer to complete all of the sales so that we can complete everything ready for Christmas

If you live anywhere near Buckinghamshire go and have a look before the last section sells.

Visit www.ancientwoodland.com for further details.

Also thanks for all of the great comments you guys and girls have given us...it will help us to write our online brochure and website in the future...

Kind regards

Tim

 

[Tony]

Tim, I'll let this slide this time but please don't sell on the forum like this again, no one is allowed to do that.

 

[Big Mark]

Really sorry. Didn't realise. Won't do it again.

Tim

 

[Doc]

I think the idea is that the quarter acres is more like a stake in the ground - so that you get permanent access to the rest of the wood....

I think really you are paying say £1500 for the quarter of an acre and £3500 for access right to the rest of the wood - those access rights been written into your deeds and the covenant signed.

I guess that is a reasonable way of looking at it.

Of course, everyone here has similar access rights to walk, camp, paddle, picnic, etc on nearly all of the 19 million acres that make up Scotland. Going by the above valuation, your access rights under the Scottish Access Code are worth around five billion pounds.....

 

[Big Mark]

I envy you. Whenever I've been hiking and camping up there it's been amazing. Unfortunately the Home Counties is a lot trickier.

When I retire....(the wife is Scottish!)

 

[ilan]

Just out of intrest how do you get planning permision for a tree house from what I understand that is classed as a permenant structure ? also will the land not degrade with that number of owners camping on it ? :tapedshut

 

[Don Redondo]

if you really want a woodland and can bear the cost of a mortgage then the Ecology Building Society will provide mortgages for small woodlands

http://www.ecology.co.uk

 

[Big Mark]

I've talked to Ecology and they are very good. I guess it depends if you want to have an additional mortgage or not...but as you say they specialise in lending money for woods, whereas a normal bank wouldn't really consider it.

 

[Bhold]

I have a friend selling a huge property in Brazil. All pristine Amazonian rainforest.
And if you compare with prices for woodland here... He is offering it in the Brazilian market for the equivalent to a little more than 100 thousand pounds.
If I had the money, I would be already packing my hammock!!

 

[Arth]

I've talked to Ecology and they are very good. I guess it depends if you want to have an additional mortgage or not...but as you say they specialise in lending money for woods, whereas a normal bank wouldn't really consider it.

If you have a offset mortgage they don't mind what you spend the money on,that's what I did. IIRC Ecology APR is slightly higher than high street banks.

 

[woodstock]

if you really want a woodland and can bear the cost of a mortgage then the Ecology Building Society will provide mortgages for small woodlands

Cheers for that link it has saved me time trawling the IN looking for a mortgage to buy a wood
have you seen the article about the concrete canvas shelters as a short term approx 10yrs accommodation

 

[deepcmonkey]

I was actually looking at this site last night

However I am very put off by an 0845 number and no address for the company. Not saying this is a scam as I have no evidense to support this. Another reason I would be a little cautious is the "only a few plots left, get in quick" sort of pitch.

 

[Nightwalker]

I was actually looking at this site last night

However I am very put off by an 0845 number and no address for the company. Not saying this is a scam as I have no evidense to support this. Another reason I would be a little cautious is the "only a few plots left, get in quick" sort of pitch.

I think you should have bothered to read the thread before posting on it, it contains some history, comments & details from the people who are running the show.

 

[deepcmonkey]

I think you should have bothered to read the thread before posting on it, it contains some history, comments & details from the people who are running the show.

I assure I did read the thread before making comment. Tim has given a vague background about him and his company, it looks like he has sold previous woods before on his site, yet after maybe selling over £500,000 worth of woodland he hasn't got a address we can see, I am sorry I find that a wee bit strange.

 

[Nightwalker]

fair enough, I know I like to see an address from site's I order from.

 

[Big Mark]

Hi there

Just reassure you all this isn't a scam. I appreciate your concern. We do this as a hobby and not a big business. My home address, where the company is registered at company house is 35 Myddelton Park, Whetstone, London N20 3JH. We use an 0845 number because I have a day job - and they take the calls and pass on any enquiries. Once the enquiries come in me and my partner deals with them personally and we openly give our details. Hope this helps. To be honest - subject to one deposit arriving - the wood is now sold.

Regards

Tim

 

[Big Mark]

I have a friend selling a huge property in Brazil. All pristine Amazonian rainforest.
And if you compare with prices for woodland here... He is offering it in the Brazilian market for the equivalent to a little more than 100 thousand pounds.
If I had the money, I would be already packing my hammock!!

I spotted a new package in WHSmith yesterday, where you can sponsor a half acre of South American Rain Forest for about £25!

Everyone is at it!

Tim