New Member - advice required

[WorcsWuss]

I would agree that primary production is your least profitable way of making money out of the site. And selling unprocessed poles for furniture making doesn't seem to be any more lucrative in hard cash terms than firewood at the moment.

To put together a scheme for a campsite wouldn't be difficult, tent sites are a whole lot easier than caravans or statics.

 

Without seeing it, I would suggest you do the following:

Have a browse round here: Planning and building control | Wiltshire Council to see whether you can find your site on the local development plan, download the forms for pre-application advice, get yourself a map / plan of the site, draw yourself a 1:100 set of plans for a shower block done in timber, show some cleared areas for tent pitches, few gravel paths, small FC style gravel car park at the entrance, and submit it to the council.

They'll then come to site, have a look at your plans & the scheme and tell you whether it's feasible. If they say it is, get a proper application knocked together [PM me if you need help] and get it in, or retain someone to do it for you.

 

I think this is an eminently more sensible idea than timber harvesting and could actually become the bones of a decent business.

 

And throw in some nudity and you're onto a definite winner...!

[Tom10]

Incredible that my first sarcastic post about a nudist camp in his wood is becoming more and more practical as this thread goes on!

[WorcsWuss]

So what that means is since your original sarcastic intentions came to zero, there's still some room for some legitimate sarcasm in the thread.... hmmmm, wonder where it will come from....