Coillte owns an estate of 445,421 hectares, which is distributed widely around the country. Coillte's practice is to sell, lease or develop a limited area of non-strategic land, for purposes other than forestry. Most sales are made in response to local demand and typically comprise house sites, isolated dwelling houses, sections of recently acquired farms, small outlying forest properties and gravel pits. Land may also be sold to local authorities for infrastructure projects and for industrial or tourism projects. Properties sold are those considered not to be of strategic importance to the company's forest business, and properties whose sale would not adversely impact on plans for future management of forests and where value exceeds forest value. A Signing Off Committee within Coillte considers all land sales, with larger sales requiring approval from Coillte's Board of Directors.

Approximately 12,000 hectares of land has been sold by Coillte since 1989 compared with 52,000 hectares of land which has been purchased.

In addition to sales and leases of land Coillte is also investigating a number of growth opportunities based on its strategic land resource - such as sustainable housing and wind energy - alone or in partnership with others. Details of these developments will be posted to the website as they become available.

Coillte's estate is certified by the Forest Stewardship Council as being well managed in accordance with strict environmental, social and economic criteria. When Coillte sells a piece of land this land is excised or removed from the estate covered by the FSC certificate and timber harvested on this land is not certified by the FSC. The circumstances in which Coillte excises land from its certificate are set out in our Excision Policy which you can read here.  

Year	Details
1 January to 31 December 2010	Land Excised by Coillte
1 January to 31 December 2009	Land Excised by Coillte
1 January to 31 December 2008	Land Excised by Coillte
1 January to 31 December 2007	Land Excised by Coillte
1 January to 31 December 2006	Land Excised by Coillte
1 January to 31 December 2005	Land Excised by Coillte
1 January to 31 December 2004	Land Excised by Coillte
1 January to 31 December 2003	Land Excised by Coillte
1 January to 31 December 2002	Land Excised by Coillte

 

 

For further information on this policy, please contact:

Contact Details for Property Development:
Mr. Padraig O'Donoghue
Coillte
Dublin Road
Newtownmountkennedy
Co. Wiclow

Tel: ++353 1 2011111
Fax: ++353 1 2011199