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Scottish Forestry Forum Backs Home Grown Timber

Posted: 14/06/2005

The Highland Forestry Forum - which advises Forestry Commission Scotland on local issues in the Highlands and Islands - has pledged its backing for efforts to promote the use of more Scotland-grown timber, especially in the house-building industry. The Forum has recently had its third meeting, during which it visited sites in the Nairn area. Afterwards chairman Ian Ross, of Golspie, said members were agreed that one of the priorities for forestry in the Highlands and Islands was to raise awareness among builders and other timber users of the availability, diversity and potential uses of timber grown in Scotland. In volume terms, Scotland is almost self sufficient in timber, producing and using about 5 million tonnes a year.

Mr Ross said, "The Highland Forestry Forum recognises the very important contribution that Scottish timber can make to the effective provision of sustainable housing in the Highlands. "There are already some existing examples of good building practice based on home-grown timber, but there is a very real need to increase awareness of the exciting opportunities that greater and more creative use of Scottish timber can offer. "Scottish timber is a locally sourced, renewable material that provides a diverse range of opportunities in terms of innovative, striking appearance and ease of future maintenance. "It also has the added benefit of generating important rural and wider economic development spin-offs. This is very much sustainability in
action."

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