- The Parish Council own three noticeboards around the village (by the garden shop on Gorley Lynch, by the Memorial Hall at Frogham Cross and by the post box in North Gorley at the Lawrence Lane junction).
- The website is updated on a regular basis.
- A quarterly newsletter is hand-delivered to each household (with copies available on the website).
- Minutes and agendas appear in the noticeboards and on the website, with paper copies available on request to the Parish Clerk.
- A small article is included in the local Link Magazine which is published monthly.
- Residents are welcome to attend the monthly Parish meetings to raise topics of interest or concern.
- The Clerk and Councillors are available to contact by telephone and email.
- When appropriate, the Parish Council will hold a special meeting to cover areas of interest.
- The Parish Council are building up a directory of emails to enable faster communication with residents (where appropriate) – if you wish to be added to this list please email the clerk
- The Parish Council work closely with the Neighbourhood Watch scheme for the area.
- The Councillors represent the Parish at various meetings – such as New Forest Association of Local Councils, New Forest National Park Authority Quadrant, New Forest Consultative Panel – and work closely with neighbouring parishes when the need arises.
Forestry England Presentment – 18/09/24
Forestry England presentment to the Verderers Court 18/09/2024 – A proposal for promoting responsible cycling and improving the New Forest off road cycle network
For full information, please visit: https://www.hyde-pc.gov.uk/forestry-england-presentment-18-09-24/
Current Consultations and Responses – 2022
NFDC Waste Strategy – Wheelie Bins – April 2022
NFDC publishes new Waste Strategy ahead of formal approval process:
Changes to NFDC’s Recycling and Rubbish Service – 6th July 2022:
Yesterday (6th July 2022) New Forest District Council’s Cabinet recommended that proposed changes to their recycling and rubbish service, and plans to reduce waste in the district, are approved at a full Council meeting on 11th July 2022.
Consultations and Responses – 2020
NFDC Planning Requirements
Local Information requirements asked for comments. Hyde Parish Council were concerned at the lack of information on development plans, making it difficult to estimate the size of proposals for neighbours and Councillors – please see our attached response.
Unfortunately, NFDC ‘lost’ the response and it was not considered. Lack of information is still a problem.
Response from Hyde Parish Council:
Government Planning for the Future
The planning for the future consultation proposes reforms of the planning system to streamline and modernise the planning process, bring a new focus to design and sustainability, improve the system of developer contributions to infrastructure and ensure more land is available for development where it is needed.
Safer New Forest Partnership 2020
Up to date information can be found via the following link:
Electoral Review of NFDC Warding patterns
Electoral review of NFDC Warding Patterns (due 2 March 2020) – reviewing a potential reduction of District Councillors from four to three in the local area and where Hyde would be best represented/positioned.
Hyde Parish Councillors hoped to form a North West Forest Ward with Ellingham, Harbridge and Ibsley, Hyde Parish, Godshill, Woodgreen and Hale. The Boundary Commissions decision (and the proposal by NFDC) means that Hyde Parish and Godshill are joined with Fordingbridge. Ellingham, Harbridge and Ibsley with Ringwood North, and Woodgreen and Hale with Downland.
Electoral Review 2019
Consultations and Responses – 2019
New Forest District Council Safer New Forest Survey (October 2019)
The New Forest is one of the safest places in the United Kingdom to live, work and visit. However, some of us do suffer from crime and anti-social behaviour and the Safer New Forest partnership works hard to prevent and reduce any reported incidents. This survey was undertaken to check that we are working on the issues that are important to you.
Response to Government Consultation on the roll out of 5G (September 2019)
Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government. Proposed reforms to permitted development rights to support the deployment of 5G and extend mobile coverage.
New Forest District Council – Local Plan 2016-2036
Reviewing the Local Plan started in 2014. The final consultation was in the summer of 2018, with a short consultation in 2019 after the examiner’s report. The plan was then adopted on 6th July 2020.
Part 2 of the Local Plan is the policy section which is relevant to Hyde.
The whole NFDC Local Plan Part 2 is available to view on the NFDC website.
National Park Authority – Local Plan 2016 – 2036
Consultations were run by the National Park Authority over four years to produce the Local Plan 2016-2036. This was adopted in August 2019.
Consultations and Responses – 2018
New Forest National Park Authority – Future Forest (12th August 2018)
Future Forest Consultation on Recreation Management Strategy – 2018
This report sets out who was consulted as part of the Future Forest’s call for views’ public consultation over the summer of 2018. The report describes how they were consulted and summarises the main findings.