Jim Webster writes

not only that but if I planted broadleaves, my biggest worry was some
environmental group would get tree preservation orders or similar slapped on
them and i would never be able to fell them anyway, which makes their use as
a crop pretty damned suspect

Given your location I suspect that a felling license would never be
given. You would have to fell it before it got to 6" diameter (or
whatever is the max allowed diameter). That's even if it didn't get a
TPO, but I suspect a TPO would be inevitable.

Which is why no UK farmer with a brain cell plants trees any more.

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