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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’...

Problems with excessive Traffic and Hit & Run accidents in 2015

Other
February 10th, 2016

Presentment to Verderers Court 10th Feb 2016, by Richard Deacon (shared here with his kind permission) Appleslade Bottom, Linwood – Problems with excessive Traffic and Hit &a...

Fungi Forage Ban on New Forest SSSI and Code of Conduct

Habitat & Landscape Committee
September 17th, 2015

NFA Presentment to September 2015 Verderers Court — The NFA reveal the source of the 1.5kg limit, and the flawed logic that allowed the FC to incorrectly apply this as a dail...

NFA Call to Ban Fungi Picking on the Crown Lands of the New Forest

Habitat & Landscape Committee
July 18th, 2015

Commercial picking on the New Forest is an unacceptable theft from the amenity of the autumn display, and damaging to the habitat. Commercial pickers harvest indiscriminately, taki...

NFA Oppose Application for a Potash Mine in North Yorkshire Moors National Park

Habitat & Landscape Committee
June 25th, 2015

NFA joined with other Nation Park Societies in writing to members of the North Yorkshire Moors NPA who will soon determine the above application. Campaign for National Parks (CNP) ...

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