Woodland management works

We have an ongoing woodland management programme across the countryside estate in Elmbridge. This programme was approved by the Forestry Commission in March 2012 and includes a Woodland Management Plan providing a framework for best practice woodland management.

Management works on Oxshott Health in autumn 2023

Works will be carried out on sixteen hectares of Oxshott Heath this autumn. They will include:

• thinning 30% of canopy
• 0.25 hectares clear fell areas for regeneration- per hectare of thinning
• a minimum 50% of the Holly understorey to be cut to ground level
• removal of invasive species such as Cherry Laurel, Rhododendron and Turkey Oak
• construction of a temporary loading bay on Sandy Lane

Find out more about woodland management.