Local councils
Local town and parish councils
There are 37 town and parish councils either partly or wholly in the New Forest National Park.
Find your council by typing in your community’s name or your postcode and also see your community’s census data at Find your parish.
Here is the list of town and parish councils with their websites where available:
- Ashurst and Colbury
- Beaulieu
- Boldre
- Bramshaw
- Bransgore
- Breamore
- Brockenhurst
- Burley
- Copythorne
- Denny Lodge
- East Boldre
- Ellingham, Harbridge and Ibsley
- Exbury and Lepe
- Fawley Parish Council
- Fordingbridge
- Godshill
- Hale
- Hordle
- Hyde
- Hythe and Dibden
- Landford
- Lymington and Pennington
- Lyndhurst
- Marchwood
- Melchet Park and Plaitford
- Milford on Sea
- Minstead
- Netley Marsh
- New Milton
- Redlynch
- Ringwood
- Sopley
- Sway
- Totton and Eling
- Wellow
- Whiteparish
- Woodgreen
The New Forest National Park Authority is not responsible for the content of external websites.
Quadrant meetings with the National Park Authority
The New Forest National Park Authority and the local parish or town councils that are wholly or partly within the National Park maintain an informal dialogue with regular meetings based on quadrants.
Who attends
Each local council sends one or two representatives (depending on the proportion of their Local Council which is within the National Park) to meetings which take place within that quadrant four or five times a year.
Officers from the National Park Authority attend and sometimes other invited guests.
How quadrants are organised
We send out a call for agenda items well before the meeting via parish and town clerks.
The bridge between the NPA and local councils is the Chair of each quadrant. This is an elected local councillor who is then elected by the constituent local councils as an NPA Board member.
The quadrants are made up of the following local councils:
North West
- Breamore
- Ellingham, Harbridge and Ibsley
- Fordingbridge
- Godshill
- Hale
- Hyde
- Redlynch
- Whiteparish
- Woodgreen
North East
- Ashurst and Colbury
- Bramshaw
- Copythorne
- Landford
- Melchett Park and Plaitford
- Minstead
- Netley Marsh
- Totton and Eling
- Wellow
South West
- Bransgore
- Brockenhurst
- Burley
- Hordle
- Lymington and Pennington
- Milford on Sea
- New Milton
- Ringwood
- Sopley
- Sway
South East
- Beaulieu
- Boldre
- Denny Lodge
- East Boldre
- Exbury and Lepe
- Fawley
- Hythe and Dibden
- Lyndhurst
- Marchwood
Consultative Panel
The New Forest Consultative Panel is an advisory forum made up of representatives from over 80 organisations with an interest in the New Forest National Park and adjacent areas, including parish and town councils.
Consultative Panel