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reviving Britain’s wood culture

reviving Britain’s wood culture . www.sylva.org.uk. College Farm. www.sylva.org.uk. www.sylva.org.uk. Outline concepts for College Farm. Develop the Wood Centre – promoting innovation and excellence in home-grown wood.

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reviving Britain’s wood culture

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  1. reviving Britain’s wood culture www.sylva.org.uk

  2. College Farm www.sylva.org.uk

  3. www.sylva.org.uk

  4. Outline concepts for College Farm Develop the Wood Centre – promoting innovation and excellence in home-grown wood. Develop the treescape with significant involvement from the local community. www.sylva.org.uk

  5. The Wood Centre - VISION Provide a resource to support users in positively sourcing, using and marketing home-grown wood; Create and foster an enterprise and training community to support long-term employability and enterprise skills; Support innovation in the design and use of home-grown wood ; Act as a centre of excellence for the wood sector; Create a replicable business model. www.sylva.org.uk

  6. Convert the potato store to house ‘light industrial’ workshops – minimal conversion using existing structure. • Include office space for Sylva. • Meeting room / gallery space. • Provide work space within grain store for existing business(es). • Provide tied accommodation for a site manager / apprentices. The Wood Centre www.sylva.org.uk

  7. Return some ‘brown field’ to ‘green field’ – creating a centralised built environment. Plant a new woodland – exploring share-ownership models. Plant a community orchard. Retain some grazing land but possible agroforestry. Treescape www.sylva.org.uk

  8. Continue planning with partners and potential users. Develop detailed proposals – visuals, traffic, noise (Spring/Summer 2013). Initiate treescape work (Summer 2013). Share detailed proposals with local community (Autumn 2013). Submit planning proposal to SODC (Winter 2013/14). Next steps www.sylva.org.uk

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