The New Forest is a working landscape with towns around its edges. Lymington sits on the water with the ferry to Yarmouth, Ringwood is out west on the Avon, New Milton and Totton are at either end of the district, and Lyndhurst and Brockenhurst are inside the forest itself, along with the ponies and the commoners whose animals have the right to be there.

New Forest Daily reports what the public record shows. Two authorities matter here and people mix them up constantly: New Forest District Council runs bins, car parks, licensing and housing, while inside the national park boundary planning applications are decided by the New Forest National Park Authority. We name which one made a decision, every time, and link to its own record.

Head for

• Local Info: bin collection days, parking and council tax bands.
• News: the record, including planning applications inside and outside the park.
• What’s On: what is happening in Lymington, Ringwood and the forest villages.

Every fact carries a link to the document behind it.