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Recreation Management: What We Should Keep and Add

The 2018 RMS Survey Proposals drop important Actions from the Current Recreation Management Strategy 2010-2030. We discuss what we’d want kept, and propose other useful key p...

Recreation Management: Evaluated Actions

Detailed Response To the Draft Actions The 2018 survey proposals consider 25 “Actions” spread over 7 “Objectives”. For the most part these are bland stateme...

Recreation Management: Adjusted Expectations

Our Strategic (or perhaps less than) Approach to the RMS Review We welcomed the review of the National Park’s Recreation Management Strategy, the core policy document whose difficu...

Recreation Management: In A Nutshell

Whilst we’re still formulating our detailed response to the Future Forest draft actions survey 2018, we’re sharing these preliminary thoughts.  These observations will ...

A Year In The New Forest — telly doc review

It may be difficult to quantify why Channel 4’s new documentary series A Year In The Forest is such a uniquely rich and well observed celebration of what makes our Forest so ...

Recreation Management: Summary of Our 2017 Response

A summary comparison of our 2017 response to the draft “Actions” proposed by NFNPA in the 2018 survey.  For last year’s Future Forest survey, we sidestepped the survey ...

NFNPA Public Questions: Recreation Management Strategy

We continue to welcome the opportunity presented by the review of the RMS, but are underwhelmed by the process and proposals. I wouldn’t belabour the deficiencies of last year’s on...

Recreation Management: An Overview

Last year the New Forest National Park Authority launched a review of the Recreation Management Strategy (RMS), its core policy document for Recreation.  With over 60 action points...

Presentment: Recreation Management Strategy : May

At January’s Court, I asked you to take with a blood pressure threatening portion of salt, the results of last year’s online RMS survey, which by its own terms made no attempt to g...

England Coast Path: What can I do about it?

We suggest some representations you might wish to make.  And discuss how the format of the consultation is restrictive. In the run up to the end of the consultation on the Highclif...

England Coast Path: Not A Whitewash (Magenta, Actually)

The Ordnance Survey’s Rubberstamping of a Bad Idea In the early days of the England Coast Path project, the Ordnance Survey were tasked with the depicting the ECP as a new Na...

England Coast Path: MisGuidance

Natural England’s Playbook for Coastal Access has problems.  The least of which is its ignorance of National Parks. The Coastal Access Scheme 2010 / 2013 This guidance docume...
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