The Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Caroline Spelman) As in previous years, the selection criteria for land in the Forestry Commission England’s forthcoming assets sales programme were published on 27th January. In light of the Government commitment to increase protection for access and public benefit in our woodlands, the criteria for these sales will be reviewed so that protections are significantly strengthened following the inadequate measures that were applied to sales under the previous administration. Pending this review, no individual woodland site will be put on the market.
This seems very sensible. On the forestry issue, a few deep breaths and some considered thought would be good.
A love of the natural world demonstrates that a person is a cultured inhabitant of planet Earth.
Thank you Bob and it does seem obviously a recognised way of polling but still suspicious as hardly any body I know would have strong enough feelings to say one way or the other and guess I have a variety of meeting people of all types.Feel sure like the hunting polls these things can be made to fit whatever anybody wants them to by say doing a poll in a area of high forestry workers or even worse by the person doing the poll having definite opinions.Afraid my opinion is it is fixed somehow as most of population never go in the woods so to think that approx 52 million think it wrong seems way out of step.
Not a very nice thing though your M P really out of order for suggesting what he did.