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Cables Buried At Buckland Rings

Planning & Transport Committee
October 6th, 2016

There…. Buckland Rings is an Iron Age Hillfort (and modern day informal BMX track) situated on the National Park’s border with Lymington. To its south and east ra...

Material World

Planning & Transport Committee
September 23rd, 2016

One concern I think we all share about the Latchmore Brook project is the transport of the infill materials. This is due to cause a certain amount disturbance and inconvenien...

Presentment: Latchmore Brook: Part 2: Wildlife, Materials and Beauty

Habitat & Landscape CommitteePlanning & Transport Committee
September 21st, 2016

In a feat of both irony, and good timing thematically, the presenter met the five minute limit for Presentments, and was cut short. The first part was an apology from the New Fores...

Presentment: Latchmore Brook: Part 1: An Apology

Habitat & Landscape CommitteePlanning & Transport Committee
September 21st, 2016

As the Latchmore Brook planning application may be decided before the next month’s Verderers Court. The NFA find that we owe everyone an apology. We’ve never made...

Rumour, Wishful Thinking, or Fiction?

Habitat & Landscape CommitteePlanning & Transport Committee
September 20th, 2016

On August 30th, The Friends of Latchmore issued a press release. It spoke of an independent review which would cause the Forestry Commission to immediately withdraw the plann...

Fact Checking Our Friends

Habitat & Landscape CommitteePlanning & Transport Committee
September 19th, 2016

The Friends of Latchmore have created a Crowdjustice crowd funding page to fund future legal challenges to the restoration project at Latchmore Brook. It contains some of the...

The New Forest Association support the Latchmore Brook Restoration

Habitat & Landscape CommitteePlanning & Transport Committee
September 2nd, 2016

The New Forest Association has been following the progress of stream restoration work done by the Forestry Commission carefully over the years. The Association backed the first of ...

Brexit and The Forest

Habitat & Landscape CommitteePlanning & Transport Committee
July 20th, 2016

NFA Presentment for the Verderers Court 20th July 2016 However we feel about the Brexit referendum, its aftermath has introduced a vast array of uncertainty, including many element...

NFA President’s Report 2015-16

Habitat & Landscape CommitteePlanning & Transport Committee
April 15th, 2016

We leave the last word before tomorrow’s Annual General Meeting to our esteemed President, Oliver Crosthwaite Eyre. He sets this year’s work against the backdrop of dev...

NFA Planning & Transport 2015-16

Planning & Transport Committee
April 13th, 2016

In anticipation of Saturday’s NFA AGM, we look back at this year’s work. In his annual report from our Planning & Transport Committee, Chair Graham Baker discusses ...

Decline in New Forest Ground-Nesting Birds

Planning & Transport Committee
April 2nd, 2016

Much of the New Forest National Park is a Special Protection Area (SPA); a strictly protected site classified in accordance with Article 4 of the EC Birds Directive. The site quali...

Secretary of State Overrules Appeal Inspector’s Recommendation and Turns Down An Application for 5 Megawatt Solar Array in New Forest National Park

Planning & Transport Committee
April 2nd, 2016

The NFA rigorously opposed the original application for an array in Vaggs Lane Hordle believing that this solar array would be a landscape spoiler, that it would be an inefficient ...

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