Ownership of the wood has been transferred to one of many companies registered at the landowner's Bristol address. The Rhino Group Ltd is described as being involved with the "general construction of buildings and civil engineering works" and "forestry and logging." Not surprisingly, there have been numerous director, secretary and company name changes. According to the ecological survey conducted by Landmark (ref: 08/EC/2013/LJR), 200 trees were originally scheduled for felling - bizarrely published within public statement No.40 at the Council meeting on 1st April 2009 (see here). As suspected, there are commercial interests in this land but the Council will ever grant planning permission to build here so any property speculation is futile.
Survey extract: "As stated earlier, the majority of the c.200 trees scheduled for felling have yet to be marked up for removal. A number of the marked trees did have suitable features for roosting bats, however, the majority of the trees within the site were not considered to have large numbers of suitable roost features. It is understood that the c.200 trees require immediate felling for health and safety purposes."
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