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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: 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: Out of Order

Habitat & Landscape CommitteeRecreation Committee
May 7th, 2018

Coastal Margin, One of the worst features of the Coast Path framework was not consulted on publicly. It’s not even defined in the Act itself. As though some inherent, receiv...

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...

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 President’s Report 2017-18

Recreation Committee
April 16th, 2018

Our President, Oliver Crosthwaite Eyre sets our work in big picture context, Brexit, the 25 Year Environment Plan, Recreation Management Strategy and Local Plans. Last of our seri...

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...

Whistleblower Leaks Plan to Convert Forest To Car Park

Recreation Committee
April 1st, 2018

In what may be an advance preview of the next Recreation Management Strategy, a whistleblower has come forward with information indicating plans afoot to pave the entire Forest to ...

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