I have to admit that I had to read your article more than once before I could fully digest what was being debated at BCP Council about gender bias
SIR – I read with interest your article about the national park authority’s (NPA) plans to restrict pop-up campsites in the New Forest.
SIR – My 2021/22 council tax bill from New Forest District Council shows an increase of 4.7% over the bill for the previous year.
SIR – Although we all regret the collapse of a part of the castle, it is important to see this change as part of the natural evolution of the coastline and to recognise that although it would be possible, with large amounts of money, to “hold back nature”, in the end it is much better to work with rather than against nature...
SIR – Much as I empathise with the general point made by Caroline Harris (Letters, 26th March) that we all should be “kind in these unforeseen difficult times”, I would take issue that robust criticism of our political leadership by media and others should be muted...
SIR – It was interesting to note that 21st March was the International Day of Forests , celebrating and raising awareness of all the wellbeing benefits of forests and trees around us...
SIR – Jon Bray ( Letters , 19th March), regarding visitor rights, raises the interesting philosophical question: what is the New Forest for?...
SIR – This will most likely hit a nerve with most of us and it is about the council tax we pay...
SIR – Today I had a timed slot at the Efford recycling (tip) centre. One of the items we were getting rid of was an old ironing board...
SIR – Does anyone else get the impression that the administrators of the New Forest would be happiest if none of us ever went there again?...
SIR – Am I alone in thinking that the collapse of part of the east wing of Hurst Castle was predictably inevitable?...
SIR – Anyone who has walked along the Milford to Barton clifftop over the last few years will certainly have noticed the alarming advance of the cliff erosion. I would guess that the pathway has been pushed back at least 50ft in some places over the last five years...
SIR – Is the New Forest District Council area to become a toilet-free zone?...
SIR – I would like to show my frustration and disappointment at the collapse of some of the wall of Hurst Castle...
SIR – The article on new views of the Town Quay toilets revamp (A&T, 19th February) left me amazed how New Forest District Council can justify spending £1.2m on building new toilets and seven shower units for yacht owners...
SIR – The proposal to shut down the public toilets in Barton “because the prefab block was only meant to be temporary and has reached the end of its lifespan” (A&T, 19th February) seems another typical council response to the alternative of scratching the noggin, putting in some work and finding a solution...
SIR – Regarding the cycle racks installed on the road in Brockenhurst, taking up three parking spaces; used in the summer maybe, but are there, empty, for the remaining 46 weeks...
SIR – I can sympathise with Mr Laurie Phillips (A&T, 12th February) about his DIY pedestrian crossing in Mudeford Quay ...
SIR – Last week’s letters , “Housing not at all affordable” and “Stand up to the developers”, highlighted a critical social issue here in the Forest: can people who are born here afford to build a life here? The contributors seemed doubtful, and sadly I agree...
SIR – I regularly see dead animals that have been killed in collisions with vehicles on the straight open road across Hilltop. The vegetation has been cut back providing good visibility and I am rarely overtaken by speeding drivers, so it is difficult to see how these collisions occur...
