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FIRE AT BRATLEY/BACKLEY/A31 AUGUST 2026

Habitat & Landscape CommitteeOther
August 17th, 2026

An article by Clive Chatters in response to the fire.

August 2026

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INTERIM VERGE WATCH REPORT 2026 by Jo Ivey, Council Member and Sarah Nield, Chair

Recreation Committee
August 10th, 2026

Read below or download the document here 1. INTRODUCTION The New Forest roadside verges are a rich habitat despite their low-key appearance. Just how rich is bring discovered by on...

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New Forest Car Parking Charges and Verge Watch

Recreation Committee
April 16th, 2026

We are expecting charges in Forestry England car parks to be introduced from 20th April 2026, although we are still awaiting final confirmation and there is no public annoucment as...

Final Report on Recreational Mitigation in the New Forest

Recreation Committee
March 31st, 2026

Report on Recreational Mitigation in the New Forest By Sarah Nield, Chair of the New Forest Association (Charity No 260328) and Emeritus Professor of Law, University of Southampton...

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29th September 2026

– 7.30pm

Pine Martens in the New Forest

Marcus, Director of Wild New Forest Guided Tours, will be giving a fascinating talk exploring the lives of Pine Martens in the New Forest. For more than a decade, Marcus has been s...

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20th October 2026

– 7.30pm

New Forest Ponies – a breed apart

Suzanne Kemp has lived in the New Forest for the last thirty years, is a practising first generation Commoner, and has judged ponies in Finland and Sweden as well as the UK, she al...

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24th November 2026

– 7.30pm

Climate Change and the New Forest

John Stride is the Net Zero with Nature Programme Manager for the New Forest National Park Authority and will be giving a fascinating, informative, and timely talk on climate chang...

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Forest Design Plan – next steps

Other
July 14th, 2016

NFA Statement to the National Park Authority Meeting 14th July 2016 [The Forest Design Plan is both the Forestry Commission’s long term vision for the Inclosures, and the Felling L...

Forest Design Plan

Other
June 15th, 2016

NFA Presentment for the Verderers Court 15th June 2016 [The Forest Design Plan is both the Forestry Commission’s long term vision for the Inclosures, and the Felling License and Re...

Linwood to Lyndhurst Road

Other
May 18th, 2016

HCC’s Disappointing Response to Hit & Run Accidents Presentment to Verderers Court 18th May 2016, by Richard Deacon (shared here with his kind permission) — we previously...

Hit and Run Accident Prosecutions

Other
April 20th, 2016

Now that the foals are starting to appear on the open forest, with more due to drop throughout May, we felt we should publicise the now available announcements from the Official Ve...

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 Habitat & Landscape 2015-16

Habitat & Landscape Committee
April 15th, 2016

Highlighting tomorrow’s NFA AGM, further amended excerpts from our Habitat and Landscape Committee’s Annual Report Our ecologists have had a very busy year, and I hope they w...

NFA Council 2015-16

Other
April 14th, 2016

More of our year in review for this Saturday’s NFA AGM. NFA Chair John Ward reports to our council the issues the NFA has continued to address this year. “Another busy year f...

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 ...

NFA Fungi Campaign 2015-16

Habitat & Landscape Committee
April 12th, 2016

With the upcoming NFA AGM this Saturday, we look back at some of this past years works. Here is an amended excerpt from our Habitat and Landscape Committee’s Annual Report Af...

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 ...

What’s in a name?

Planning & Transport Committee
March 11th, 2016

The Rose & Crown, Brockenhurst (photo: G.Baker) The Rose and Crown may have its name changed to The Huntsman if owners, Marston, get their way. Unfortunately the National Park’...