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Top of the crops: New Culcheth woodland to provide woodfuel to heat local farm
Culcheth is set to benefit from a new woodland the size of five football pitches, to be planted at Ratcliffe House Farm at the eastern edge of the village.
The new woodland will not only provide excellent habitats for wildlife, as it grows it will also come to provide a sustainable woodfuel resource for the farm house. The woodland will be harvested using a technique known as coppicing on a regular cycle every 10 to 12 years to provide a continual supply of wood for the fire, aiming to make the owners self-sufficient in woodfuel. The main species that will be planted include ash and hazel which both respond excellently to coppicing.
The 3.9 hectares of woodland will be part funded by the Forestry Commission's woodland creation grant, and will be publicly accessible via a proposed 370-metre permissive footpath, extending an existing Public Right of Way.
The Mersey Forest has been heavily involved in making the new woodland possible. The Mersey Forest Team liaised with the landowner throughout the development of the scheme, providing information on available grants, developing maps of the layout of the proposed planting, advising on species choice, liaising with Forestry Commission woodland officers and submitting the successful Forestry Commission grant applications on the landowners' behalf.
