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Verderer’s Announcements and Decisions September 2018

CommoningHabitat & Landscape Committee
September 19th, 2018

This month’s announcements include warnings about dumping apples and garden waste on the Forest as a hazard to the livestock, the upcoming Verderers Election, positive change...

Gasp! NFDC and Southampton Clean Air Zone Consultation

Habitat & Landscape Committee
September 16th, 2018

The World Health Organization named Southampton amongst the worst cities for air pollution in UK. Here’s our response to the consultation run by NFDC and Southampton on South...

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: MisGuidance

Habitat & Landscape CommitteeRecreation Committee
May 7th, 2018

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...

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...

CDA Letter to Members Relating to Localised Excessive Poaching

CommoningHabitat & Landscape Committee
May 4th, 2018

This letter was written by New Forest Commoners Defence Association Chair Tony Hockley to CDA members, following concerns during the wet winter of 2017-2018. Dear Member You should...

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 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....

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 ...

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...

Presentment: Thanks to FC for continued Fungi policy / England Coast Path shortcomings

Habitat & Landscape Committee
September 20th, 2017

Fungi The NFA hope the Verderers will join us in thanking the Forestry Commission for their continuing attempts to protect fungi vital to the habitat of the Crown Lands. As they di...

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