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Byelaws Watch Survey 2022

Recreation Committee
July 26th, 2022

CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS The New Forest is in theory protected by byelaws that aim to conserve the Forest, preserve its tranquillity, and regulate recreational use – the Forestry Commis...

Campsites on the Crown Lands : Our Statement to the New Forest National Park Authority

Habitat & Landscape Committee
July 14th, 2022

We highlight our concerns with Forestry England’s tender for their campsites on the protected habitat of the New Forest to the July 2022 meeting of the New Forest National Pa...

Tender for the operator of New Forest campsites: Our Letter to Forestry England

CommoningHabitat & Landscape Committee
June 28th, 2022

We were greatly heartened by the news that Forestry England and Forestry and Land Scotland had purchased Camping in the Forest (CiTF) from The Camping and Caravanning Club, because...

Announcements & Decisions Verderers Court 17th April 2019

Planning & Transport Committee
April 17th, 2019

This month’s announcements include warnings about dumping garden waste on the Forest as a hazard to the livestock, foals on Forest roads, out of control dogs, pleas to not fe...

Chris Packham Pushes For Unicorn Rewilding in the New Forest

CommoningHabitat & Landscape Committee
March 31st, 2019

This article originally appeared in the 1st April, 2019 edition of the Lymington Tomes / Miltonian Adverteaser and is reprinted without any regard to their permission. Miltonian Ad...

Verderers response to BBC Inside Out South

Commoning
January 30th, 2019

This is the Verderers of the New Forest Press Release in response to claims made on a segment of BBC’s Inside Out South aired on Monday, 28th January, 2019. It is a great sha...

Our Chair Responds to BBC Inside Out Allegations

Commoning
January 29th, 2019

Drawing conclusions from a snapshot view of the New Forest is often risky for a place that evolves and fluctuates over long periods of time.

Verderer’s Announcements and Decisions September 2018

CommoningHabitat & Landscape Committee
September 19th, 2018

This month’s announcements include warnings about dumping apples and garden waste on the Forest as a hazard to the livestock, the upcoming Verderers Election, positive change...

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...

CDA Letter to Members Relating to Localised Excessive Poaching

CommoningHabitat & Landscape Committee
May 4th, 2018

This letter was written by New Forest Commoners Defence Association Chair Tony Hockley to CDA members, following concerns during the wet winter of 2017-2018. Dear Member You should...

Guest Post: High Level Stewardship AGM 2018 — Official Verderer

Other
April 25th, 2018

The New Forest HLS is England’s largest environmental improvement scheme, launched in 2010. The scheme is managed through a formal partnership between the relevant statutory...

Presentment April: England Coast Path

CommoningHabitat & Landscape 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 ...

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