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Presentment: Latchmore Brook: Part 2: Wildlife, Materials and Beauty

Habitat & Landscape CommitteePlanning & Transport Committee
September 21st, 2016

In a feat of both irony, and good timing thematically, the presenter met the five minute limit for Presentments, and was cut short. The first part was an apology from the New Fores...

Presentment: Latchmore Brook: Part 1: An Apology

Habitat & Landscape CommitteePlanning & Transport Committee
September 21st, 2016

As the Latchmore Brook planning application may be decided before the next month’s Verderers Court. The NFA find that we owe everyone an apology. We’ve never made...

Rumour, Wishful Thinking, or Fiction?

Habitat & Landscape CommitteePlanning & Transport Committee
September 20th, 2016

On August 30th, The Friends of Latchmore issued a press release. It spoke of an independent review which would cause the Forestry Commission to immediately withdraw the plann...

Fact Checking Our Friends

Habitat & Landscape CommitteePlanning & Transport Committee
September 19th, 2016

The Friends of Latchmore have created a Crowdjustice crowd funding page to fund future legal challenges to the restoration project at Latchmore Brook. It contains some of the...

The New Forest Association support the Latchmore Brook Restoration

Habitat & Landscape CommitteePlanning & Transport Committee
September 2nd, 2016

The New Forest Association has been following the progress of stream restoration work done by the Forestry Commission carefully over the years. The Association backed the first of ...

Brexit and The Forest

Habitat & Landscape CommitteePlanning & Transport Committee
July 20th, 2016

NFA Presentment for the Verderers Court 20th July 2016 However we feel about the Brexit referendum, its aftermath has introduced a vast array of uncertainty, including many element...

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 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 ...

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’...

We Won! We Won!

Planning & Transport Committee
May 19th, 2015

At the New Forest National Park Authority Development Control meeting this morning the application for old peoples’ flats on the Redmayne site at Brockenhurst was unanimously refus...

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