Sciberscross Forest
Location:Sciberscross Forest, Brora, Sutherland
Area:957.60 Hectares / 2366.25 Acres
Freehold
Price:Offers over £8,500,000
Status:Available
- An outstanding forestry investment opportunity with a significant volume of mature timber ready for felling
- One of the largest and most productive commercial conifer forests to be offered to the market in Northern Scotland
- Stocked area comprises productive self-thinning Sitka spruce & Lodgepole pine mixtures containing excellent sawlog content
- Spectacular location in a highly scenic area of Sutherland in the Scottish Highlands
- Opportunity for peatland restoration and wind development, subject to consents
Sciberscross Forest, Brora, Sutherland
Location
Sciberscross Forest is located in the highly scenic and rugged county of Sutherland in the Scottish Highlands. The property lies in an elevated position about 10 miles northeast of the popular coastal town of Brora and runs parallel to the Black Water, a tributary northwest of the Brora River.
Sutherland is renowned for its wild and dramatic scenery with rugged coastlines,heather-clad hills, prominent lochs and sweeping glens occupying the sparsely filledlandscape. The area is also famed for its excellent fishing and deer stalking and for its good road network to the east and west coast of Scotland, linking with the North Coast 500 route and all major timber haulage routes.
Brora offers a range of local amenities with the city of Inverness, 60 miles to the south, providing access to an international airport, selection of accommodation, access to timber mills and all major timber transport routes across Scotland.
Please refer to the location and sale plans to locate the property and use the what3words reference whistle.spouting.repelled to locate the forest.
Description
Sciberscross Forest was established on former hill ground in two primary planting phases, in 1989 and 1990. The forest features a conifer crop predominantly composed of Sitka spruce, planted in a self-thinning mixture with Lodgepole pine, Scots pine, and Larch. Additionally, there are pockets of pure Sitka spruce and attractive areas of mixed broadleaves.
The majority of the forest is now reaching maturity with an approved Long-Term Forest Plan in place providing the opportunity for immediate tax free income from harvesting over the plan period and beyond. Growth within Sciberscross Forest is good, attributed to soil conditions dominated by peaty podzols and pockets of peaty gleys. The timber crop is of excellent quality on the free-draining sloping ground, which has self-thinned to produce well-formed stands of Sitka spruce with excellent sawlog content and yield classes in the region of 20 and above. Naturally, as you move onto the upper slopes, growth becomes more variable and would benefit from an additional period of maturity before harvesting.
Sciberscross Forest offers an incoming purchaser with a significant opportunity to generate a swift return on investment from tax free timber sales over the next 10 years and beyond, along with the potential to improve the yield classes of the next rotation. The forest also offers opportunity for wind energy development, subject to consent. Peatland restoration potential exists, and more broadleaves will be introduced in the second rotation allowing a purchaser to enhance the biodiversity within the forest.
Please refer to the online sale brochure and video for further information and contact the Selling Agent to arrange a viewing.
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