Agenda August 2025

To: All members of the New Forest National Park Authority
Date: 20 August 2025

Extra-ordinary New Forest National Park Authority Meeting

Thursday 28 August 2025

An Extra-ordinary meeting of the New Forest National Park Authority will be held on Thursday 28 August 2025 at 10.00am in the Council Chamber, Lymington Town Hall, Lymington SO41 9ZG.

Please note this meeting will not be live streamed or video recorded.

Part I of the meeting will be open to the Press and public.

Alison Barnes

Chief Executive/National Park Officer

Agenda

Part I

1. Apologies for absence

2. Declarations of interest

   Members are asked to declare any interests they may have in relation to items on the agenda for this meeting. (NB. When verbally declaring interests, members are also asked to complete the Disclosure of Interests at Meetings form).

3. Chair’s announcements
4. Minutes - to approve as a correct record the minutes of the Authority meeting held on 24 July 2025.
5. Date of next meeting – Thursday 16 October 2025 at 10.00 am – Council Chamber, Lymington Town Hall, Lymington, SO41 9ZG

Part II items which may be taken in the absence of the Press and public on the grounds that exempted information maybe disclosed

Members are asked to resolved that the public be excluded from the meeting during the following item of business, as it is likely, in view of the nature of the business to be transacted or the nature of the proceedings, that if members of the public were present during this item, there would be disclosure to them of exempt information within Paragraph 3 and Paragraph 5, Part 1 of Schedule 12A to the Local Government Act 1972, and further that in all the circumstances of the case, the public interest in maintaining the exemption outweighs the public interest in disclosing the information, namely the need to avoid disclosing sensitive information relating to the Authority’s financial and business affairs.

6. Capital Investment Appraisal 2025/26 (August) (AM 720/25)

Members are requested to sign the attendance register

Membership: John Adams, Gordon Bailey, David Bence (Chair), Richard Clewer, Zoe Clewer, Mary Davies, Barry Dunning, David Harrison, Mel Kendal, Victoria Mander (Deputy Chair), Keith Mans, George Meyrick, Caroline Rackham, Joe Reilly, Ann Sevier, Brice Stratford, Michael Thierry, Derek Tipp, Steve Trow and Malcolm Wade plus 2 vacancies.

Details of the decisions taken at this meeting will be circulated in the formal minutes which the Authority will be asked to approve as a correct record at its next meeting.

For further information on any of the reports for this meeting, details of decisions taken, or future meetings, please contact Vicki Gibbon
(Tel. 01590 646647, email vicki.gibbon@newforestnpa.gov.uk).

If you would like a copy of this agenda in large print, Braille or any alternative language or format, or if you wish to attend the meeting and have special requirements, please contact Vicki Gibbon on vicki.gibbon@newforestnpa.gov.uk or 01590 646647.