A press release has been issued today, please click here to read it.

An article in this week’s (20 August 2016) Lymington Times reports that the New Forest National Park Authority – the Planning Department for the New Forest and also one of the Partners in the administration of the Latchmore Wetland Restoration Project – has … Continue reading →

An article in Private Eye for 19 August-1 September 2016 shows that news is spreading.

In response to a Freedom of Information request, the Forestry Commission have provided figures for the cost of the project. Expenditure to date is £256,657.65  and the estimated total cost of the project is currently £1.5 million.

On 8 August we launched an appeal on the CrowdJustice website to oppose Planning Application Number 16/00571 : Latchmore Wetland Restoration.  We are raising funds for a challenge in court which, if successful, will protect this beautiful Forest stream.  Please support … Continue reading →

Professor John Shepherd CBE FRS CMath FIMA MA PhD has written an Objection to what he describes as this “highly controversial” planning application – please click here to read it.

An article entitled ‘Stream plan sparks fury’ appeared in the Bournemouth Echo on 12 August 2016, and a letter to the editor from Ailsa Farrand was printed in the Lymington Times dated 13 August 2016.

In this week’s Lymington Times (6 August 2016), Latchmore is the subject of an article headed ‘Vandalism to change stream’s character’  and two letters to the Editor, from Jon Fryer and Kate Nissen, and Dr Fiona Macdonald. In his New Forest … Continue reading →