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FIRE AT BRATLEY/BACKLEY/A31 AUGUST 2026
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Wilding Film Event — Announcing Our Panel

Habitat & Landscape Committee
October 11th, 2024

Clive Chatters, Lyndsey Stride, Nick Tomalin (RSPB), and Sam Haynes will discuss rewilding and its implications for the Forest for our Wilding Film event. Discussion will be modera...

Verderers Announcements & Decisions : Dogs, Brambles, Fees & New Verderers

CommoningHabitat & Landscape CommitteeRecreation Committee
October 19th, 2022

This month’s announcements include the management and importance of brambles, controlling dogs in bird nesting season, pleas to not feed livestock, marking fees, and the appo...

Campsites on the Crown Lands : Our Statement to the New Forest National Park Authority

Habitat & Landscape CommitteeRecreation Committee
July 14th, 2022

We highlight our concerns with Forestry England’s tender for their campsites on the protected habitat of the New Forest to the July 2022 meeting of the New Forest National Pa...

Rewilding The New Forest?

CommoningHabitat & Landscape Committee
February 25th, 2019

The growl of a large grizzly bear filled the hall at Lyndhurst Community Centre and the audience of two hundred people gasped. As curtains drew back and they were confronted with a...

Recreation Management: Adjusted Expectations

Habitat & Landscape CommitteeRecreation Committee
August 8th, 2018

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...

A Year In The New Forest — telly doc review

CommoningHabitat & Landscape Committee
July 28th, 2018

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 ...

NFNPA Public Questions: Recreation Management Strategy

Habitat & Landscape CommitteeRecreation Committee
June 15th, 2018

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...

England Coast Path: What can I do about it?

Habitat & Landscape CommitteeRecreation Committee
May 7th, 2018

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)

Habitat & Landscape Committee
May 7th, 2018

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: Out of Order

Habitat & Landscape CommitteeRecreation Committee
May 7th, 2018

Coastal Margin, One of the worst features of the Coast Path framework was not consulted on publicly. It’s not even defined in the Act itself. As though some inherent, receiv...

England Coast Path: What you need to know

CommoningHabitat & Landscape CommitteeRecreation Committee
May 6th, 2018

The consultation on the Highcliffe to Calshot stretch of the England Coast Path closes on Wednesday 9th May. We’ve been discussing the possible negative impacts of the propo...

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 ...

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