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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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Presentment April: England Coast Path

CommoningHabitat & Landscape CommitteeRecreation Committee
April 18th, 2018

I’d hoped that my previous presentment on the England Coast Path would be the last, and thank the court yet again for its inclusion in unusual circumstances. The complexity of the ...

NFA President’s Report 2017-18

Recreation Committee
April 16th, 2018

Our President, Oliver Crosthwaite Eyre sets our work in big picture context, Brexit, the 25 Year Environment Plan, Recreation Management Strategy and Local Plans. Last of our seri...

NFA Habitat and Landscape 2017-18

Habitat & Landscape CommitteePlanning & Transport CommitteeRecreation Committee
April 15th, 2018

Habitat and Landscape Chair, Brian Tarnoff reviews with uncharacteristic brevity the past year on the Forest Design Plan, Recreation Management Strategy and the England Coast Path....

NFA Planning and Transport 2017-18

Planning & Transport CommitteeRecreation Committee
April 14th, 2018

Here Planning and Transport Chair, Graham Baker weighs in, with some frustrations, over the past year, full of mounting concerns of increased pressure on the Forest. Part of our se...

NFA Council and Trustees 2017-18

Planning & Transport CommitteeRecreation Committee
April 11th, 2018

With our AGM fast approaching on Saturday 21st April 2018, this and next week we’ll feature our annual reports. NFA Chair John Ward reports on the work of our council and tru...

Whistleblower Leaks Plan to Convert Forest To Car Park

Recreation Committee
April 1st, 2018

In what may be an advance preview of the next Recreation Management Strategy, a whistleblower has come forward with information indicating plans afoot to pave the entire Forest to ...

Friends of the New Forest help to purchase ‘a secret forest’ in the north of the New Forest National Park.

Habitat & Landscape Committee
March 23rd, 2018

The trustees, members and supporters of the Friends of the New Forest (New Forest Association) are celebrating the purchase of a nature reserve, near Nomansland in Wiltshire, which...

Presentment: England Coast Path Consultation

CommoningHabitat & Landscape CommitteeRecreation Committee
March 21st, 2018

We are now one week into the consultation on the Highcliffe to Calshot stretch of the England Coast Path. This well meaning but unnecessary project will create non-historic rights ...

DEVELOPMENT THREAT TO THE NEW FOREST

Planning & Transport Committee
February 23rd, 2018

DEVELOPMENT THREAT TO THE NEW FOREST – URGENT Please help us to help the New Forest. Your action is needed now! Friends of the New Forest (New Forest Association) is urging our mem...

Recreation Management Strategy and Solent Recreation Mitigation Partnership Strategy

Habitat & Landscape CommitteeRecreation Committee
January 18th, 2018

Our representation to Public Questions from the January meeting of the New Forest National Park Authority. We point out flaws in the draft interpretation of last years Recreation M...

100th anniversary of the Portuguese Fireplace in the New Forest

Other
November 18th, 2017

On 18th November 2017, eight members of the Anglo-Portuguese community came to the New Forest from London for a little ceremony to commemorate the arrival of a Portuguese contingen...

Presentment: Recreation Events at Night

Habitat & Landscape CommitteeRecreation Committee
November 15th, 2017

Last month the Commoners Defence Association noted problems with the planned 2nd December, Hampshire Maverick Silva Dark Series trail running event. It is in early evening, but in...