Friday 7 November 2014

Public Forests to be named as exempt in the Infrastructure Bill

We have just learnt that the ability of the Government to transfer the public forest estate to the Homes and Community Agency, as part the Infrastructure Bill, has been prevented by campaigners.

We have compiled a series of links that should provide most of the background:

We would also recommend a visit to the Save Our Woods campaign website - the organisation which appears to be leading the fight to retain control of the public forest estate.

Apologies for the lack of coverage on this topic - there seems to have been very little coverage about this in the media!