The New Forest National Park Authority takes up its full duties on 1 April 2006. Lindsay Cornish, the Chief Executive, said: “From 1 April the National Park Authority becomes the local planning authority within the Park boundary. We will give grants for innovative projects from our Sustainable Development Fund and work with partners on conservation, [...]
Environment Minister Elliot Morley chose Studland Bay as the most appropriate place to launch the government’s new guidance on shoreline management plans. The Dorset Coast Path runs along the beach where the National Trust has already begun to abandon sea defences. NT Head of Sustainability Rob Jarman warned that the beach was going to change. [...]
Several clifftop gardens are opening this summer as part of the National Gardens Scheme. One belongs to a house in Cassel Avenue where the garden is half an acre on the side of Branksome Dene Chine. Nearby, across the Alum Chine suspension bridge and up a tempting short cut footpath, is a Milner Road garden [...]
The continuing row about the future of the IMAX cinema building on Bournemouth seafront will be featured on BBC1′s Inside Out programme to be shown in the South on Monday 6 March. A recent Channel 4 programme branded the building as one of the ugliest in Britain. Meanwhile the nearby pier is to undergo a [...]