31 March 2011
Dear Sue
Many thanks for your e-mail and for the invitation to the New
Forest. I know Bishop James is keen engage and the Panel will want to
have a full programme of visits and meetings. We will come back to you
with a fuller reply shortly. I would find it useful to have a talk on the
phone if you are willing and perhaps we could arrange a time next week?
In the meantime I attach some general information below.
Regards
Kathryn Packer
Head of Secretariat
Independent Panel on Forestry
http://ww2.defra.gov.uk/rural/forestry/panel/
Secretariat to the Independent Panel on Forestry
Defra
Area 3B
Nobel House
17 Smith Square
London SW1P 3JR
Thank you for
contacting the Independent Panel on Forestry. The Panel is getting
its work underway and is keen to hear from everyone with an interest in
England’s forest and woodlands.
The Chair, the Rt
Rev Bishop James Jones, and the wider Panel are keen to get out and about, to
meet local and specific interest groups, and find the best ways to engage
people in a dialogue about the future of forestry and woodland policy in
England, and on the role of the Forestry Commission in implementing it. The
Panel will be updating its web pages with information on how it intends to
do this and about the work of the Panel shortly (see http://ww2.defra.gov.uk/rural/forestry/panel/).
This page gives the terms of reference and list of Panel members, who were
appointed by the Secretary of State for Environment, Caroline Spelman.
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your suggestions on places to visit, issues and evidence the panel should
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From: ONE VOICE
[mailto:onevoice@officeoverload.com]
Sent: 30 March 2011 19:26
To: BishopsLodge@liverpool.anglican.org
Cc: Forestry Panel
Subject: Invitation to visit the New Forest
Dear Bishop James,
As part of the panel's
evidence gathering process, we feel it is crucial that you engage fully with
New Forest organisations and community groups to understand more about our
concerns. We would like to invite you to the New Forest at an
early stage in the process to discuss our concerns relating to access,
recreation, New Forest Acts, safeguarding forestry jobs, National Park purposes
etc. It will be a good opportunity for you to also see how the Forestry
Commission manage and maintain the delicate balance between nature and
recreation.
As the panel has
just one 'recreational' member it is important to us that we have reassurances
that there will be no erosion of access rights such as the CROW Act; the Law of
Property Act 1925; and the fact that the Forestry Commission in the New Forest
has dedicated as access land all the woodland areas that it manages which do
not have access rights under the Law of Property Act 1925.
I look forward to
hearing from you.
With kind regards
Sue Baillie (Mrs)
ONE VOICE, New
Forest
Tel: 01425 621889
Fax: 01425 620063
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