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Verderers response to BBC Inside Out South

Commoning
January 30th, 2019

This is the Verderers of the New Forest Press Release in response to claims made on a segment of BBC’s Inside Out South aired on Monday, 28th January, 2019. It is a great sha...

Fungi and the Law (a summary)

Habitat & Landscape Committee
October 22nd, 2018

We thought it was time to review where fungi law is currently. With Autumn fully upon us, and a plethora of various understandings being put about, I’ve attempted to summariz...

Recreation Management: What We Should Keep and Add

Habitat & Landscape CommitteeRecreation Committee
August 11th, 2018

The 2018 RMS Survey Proposals drop important Actions from the Current Recreation Management Strategy 2010-2030. We discuss what we’d want kept, and propose other useful key p...

Recreation Management: Evaluated Actions

Habitat & Landscape CommitteeRecreation Committee
August 11th, 2018

Detailed Response To the Draft Actions The 2018 survey proposals consider 25 “Actions” spread over 7 “Objectives”. For the most part these are bland stateme...

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...

Recreation Management: In A Nutshell

Habitat & Landscape CommitteeRecreation Committee
August 5th, 2018

Whilst we’re still formulating our detailed response to the Future Forest draft actions survey 2018, we’re sharing these preliminary thoughts. These observations will ...

Recreation Management: Summary of Our 2017 Response

Habitat & Landscape CommitteeRecreation Committee
June 25th, 2018

A summary comparison of our 2017 response to the draft “Actions” proposed by NFNPA in the 2018 survey. For last year’s Future Forest survey, we sidestepped the survey ...

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...

Recreation Management: An Overview

Habitat & Landscape CommitteeRecreation Committee
June 8th, 2018

Last year the New Forest National Park Authority launched a review of the Recreation Management Strategy (RMS), its core policy document for Recreation. With over 60 action points...

Presentment: Recreation Management Strategy : May

Habitat & Landscape CommitteeRecreation Committee
May 16th, 2018

At January’s Court, I asked you to take with a blood pressure threatening portion of salt, the results of last year’s online RMS survey, which by its own terms made no attempt to g...

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: 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...

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