Property Details: • Type: 11,821,991 sq ft • Tenure: N/A • Floor Area: N/A
Key Features: • Sowerby Wood - 109.83 Hectares / 271.39 Acres • Sizeable reserve of Scots pine ready for harvest • Excellent access and internal roading • Amenity and sporting potential • Prime location with easy access to major sawmills • Possible development potential
Location: • Nearest Station: Dalston Station • Distance to Station: 1.1 miles
Agent Information: • Address: 18 Great Stuart Street Edinburgh EH3 7TN
Full Description: Location Sowerby Wood is located approximately 3.5 miles from the centre of Carlisle. This area is renowned for commercial forestry production due to its favourable growing conditions, excellent transport links and close proximity to multiple major timber processors. To locate the property, please refer to location and sale plans within these particulars. The nearest postcode is CA5 7LB and the What3Words code is: ///entertainer.attend.scam
Access Sowerby Wood is accessed from Lingeyclose road onto the B5299. The B5299 provides access north and south onto major trunk roads and on to local and national timber markets. Lingeyclose road is a dead-end road accessed from the south and used by neighbouring residential properties. The entrance of the access is shown as A1 on the Sale Plan. There is a pedestrian access shown at A2. Internally, there is a forest road which has been constructed to a robust standard.
Description Sowerby Wood is a mixed commercial and amenity property which has seen extensive felling and restocking over the last 15 years. The younger, well-established crops are comprised of Sitka and Norway spruce. Regeneration of birch is extensive throughout these areas and whilst some respacing work has been carried out, more might be required to maximise the commercial potential. Alternatively, the property could be managed using continuous cover silviculture, this would allow it to develop into a stunning mixed woodland.
There is an extensive area of mature Scots pine towards the south of the property. In places, it is developing understory of beach and is interspersed with birch and rowan. Within the crop there is a charming small flight pond which could be enhanced. There is a lesser area of Japanese larch to the northern edge. Native broadleaves have been used primarily to improve biodiversity and add species diversity to the landscape. Groups of native mixed broadleaves have been planted throughout the forest, but there are also some clusters which have naturally regenerated. Some residential development has been carried out near the boundary of the woodland. Consultation with the relevant authorities would be required, but it may be possible to seek consent for residential development within Sowerby Wood.
Woodland Management The property is currently well managed by Wildwoods & Forestry. For more information please contact Ewan Batchelor on or
Sporting Rights Sporting rights are included with vacant possession. A local volunteer group has had permissive access to control grey squirrels.
Mineral Rights The mines and minerals are excepted and held by a third party.
Boundaries There are no known fencing liabilities.
Wayleaves & Third-Party Rights There is a right of access to maintain a drain which runs into the property from a neighbouring dwelling. The property will be sold with the benefit of, and subject to, all existing rights and burdens with the Titles.
Clawback Agreement The sale is subject to a Clawback Agreement in favour of the seller in respect of any future renewable energy development affecting any part of the property (including for access purposes). The Agreement will require the purchaser to pay 25% of income derived from any renewable energy development (excluding any timber compensation payments) for the life of the development if established within a period of 20 years from the date of sale. A first ranking standard security over the property will be required to secure this entitlement to income.
