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Newsletter January 2026
Wishing our readers an enjoyable Burns Night! Patersons Quarries Patersons Quarries Limited have confirmed that they are planning to recommence quarrying sometime later this year. This will be subject to […]
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Newsletter December 2025
Wishing all our readers a Merry Christmas! Dark Woods Update There has been rapid progress with The Dark Woods Regeneration project – the harvesting machine has finished on site and […]
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Dark Woods Regeneration
We’re pleased to confirm that the main harvesting stage of the Dark Woods Regeneration Project is now largely complete, and the harvester and forwarder machines have now left site. Our […]
After the successful replanting by community volunteers of over 2000 young native mainly broadleaved trees in 2024 and 2025 near 7 Winds path near the woodland sculptures (badger squirrel frog […]
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Newsletter November 2025
Keeping you up to date on Community Woodland matters. Dark Woods Progress The Dark Woods Regeneration project is now well underway, and our harvesting contractors are working hard. The unseasonably […]
Work is progressing with the first stage of our Dark Woods Regeneration project, which involves felling the existing over-mature stand of Sitka Spruce and other conifer species. Our contractor, Ian […]
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Newsletter October 2025
Welcome to our second monthly newsletter – keeping you up to date on Woodland matters. Acorns Everywhere! You may have noticed that this year has been a bumper year for […]
Harvesting work to the Dark Woods will commence on Monday 20th October, and is expected to take around 3-4 weeks. Timber extraction and removal from site may take a further few […]
The first part of the Dark Woods regeneration project will be to remove and clear the existing mature and windblown sitka spruce. We are now able to confirm that harvesting operations […]