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FIRE AT BRATLEY/BACKLEY/A31 AUGUST 2026
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August 17th, 2026

An article by Clive Chatters in response to the fire.

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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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FoNF response to ExxonMobil non-statutory consultation about CO2 pipeline

Planning & Transport Committee
October 3rd, 2024

Our submitted response follows, but we have been advised today (3rd October) that ExxonMobil is abandoning its controversial scheme to build a pipeline from Fawley Refinery across ...

Notes: Solent Freeport Background

Planning & Transport Committee
October 20th, 2022

Our statement regarding the Solent Freeport at the New Forest National Park Authority meeting on 20th October 2022 included these Notes and Footnotes for the benefit of the Authori...

Solent Freeport Requires Regard for the New Forest National Park

Planning & Transport Committee
October 20th, 2022

We made this statement regarding the Solent Freeport at the New Forest National Park Authority meeting on 20th October 2022. The Authority agenda included a discussion of the Free...

Declaration from National Parks Movement to Strengthen Protected Landscapes

Planning & Transport Committee
October 19th, 2022

The annual National Parks Societies Conference was held in Snowdonia last week. Recognising the present scale of the nature and climate emergency, the Friends of the New Forest pro...

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...

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...

NFA Comment on Dibden Bay

Habitat & Landscape CommitteePlanning & Transport Committee
October 28th, 2016

The perennial threat of development of Dibden Bay by Associated British Ports (ABP) for a container port appears to be back on the table according to stories yesterday from both th...

Fracking the Forest?

Habitat & Landscape CommitteePlanning & Transport Committee
October 10th, 2016

With the Government taking the decision on fracking away from Lancashire County Council on 6th October 2016, this brief review of our position and the possibility of hydraul...

Cables Buried At Buckland Rings

Planning & Transport Committee
October 6th, 2016

There…. Buckland Rings is an Iron Age Hillfort (and modern day informal BMX track) situated on the National Park’s border with Lymington. To its south and east ra...

Material World

Planning & Transport Committee
September 23rd, 2016

One concern I think we all share about the Latchmore Brook project is the transport of the infill materials. This is due to cause a certain amount disturbance and inconvenien...

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