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September 16th, 2026

Highlighting the issue of dog fouling, we feature this guest statement by Jim Greenwood, given as a Presentment to the September 2026 Verderers Court

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Recreation Management: What We Should Keep and Add

Habitat & Landscape 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 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 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 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 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 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 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...

Recreation Management Strategy and Solent Recreation Mitigation Partnership Strategy

Habitat & Landscape Committee
January 18th, 2018

Our representation to Public Questions from the January meeting of the New Forest National Park Authority. We point out flaws in the draft interpretation of last years Recreation M...

Recreation Management Strategy Survey Response

Habitat & Landscape Committee
August 9th, 2017

Our response to the Future Forest RMS Survey launched by the New Forest National Park Authority. We call for priority projects to address outdated infrastructure, boost regard for...

Recreation Management Strategy Survey / England Coast Path NFNPA July 2017

Habitat & Landscape Committee
July 13th, 2017

This Statement was made to the New Forest National Park Authority at their meeting on 13th July 2017. Whilst we welcome the review of the RMS, the emphasis and approach of the surv...

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