{"id":29588,"date":"2026-04-29T10:19:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T09:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.propertysurveying.co.uk\/newsletter\/?page_id=29588"},"modified":"2026-04-29T21:49:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T20:49:18","slug":"outrage-and-upset-in-the-new-forest-1-the-lord-of-the-manor-is-upsetting-the-neighbours","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.propertysurveying.co.uk\/newsletter\/?page_id=29588","title":{"rendered":"Outrage and Upset in the New Forest 1: The Lord of the Manor Is Upsetting the Neighbours!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Outrage and Upset in the New Forest 1: The Lord of the Manor Is Upsetting the Neighbours! <\/strong><\/p>\n

Strains of Joni Mitchell\u2019s \u2018Take Paradise and Put Up a Parking Lot\u2019 waft in our ears\u2026<\/p>\n

The New Forest National Park Authority (NFNPA) has just granted Lord Montagu\u2019s Beaulieu Estate permission for a 46-space car park.\u00a0 This car park will be in addition to the 1,000-space car park, only metres away, which currently supports the Estate\u2019s hugely successful National Motor Museum.<\/p>\n

The car park, currently for approximately 10 cars and currently grassland in the bucolically named \u2018Hides Field\u2019, is to be extended and gravel-surfaced to enable visitors with mobility issues to access a treehouse study centre and event venue run by the Countryside Education Trust (CET) Treehouses Charity.<\/p>\n

Residents of enchanting Beaulieu, where property prices average over \u00a32 million, have been deeply concerned that the project is a \u2018Trojan Horse\u2019, in that, once gravel-surfaced and therefore \u2018grey land\u2019, it could more easily support applications for development by the Beaulieu Estate, fuelling the \u2018commercial creep\u2019 that is spoiling the Hampshire paradise.<\/p>\n

The Estate has striven in the past to maximise commercial opportunities of its 9,000 acres by developing a 4×4 track, high ropes facilities and so on, which rather explains the residents\u2019 anxieties.\u00a0 There is the potential for the charitable tree house area to be used for up to 12 weddings a year, with a maximum of 100 guests attending each, quite apart from the potential once it is \u2018grey land\u2019.<\/p>\n

Some consolation for residents was provided by the NFNPA in that although the application was approved, it was on the proviso that if the CET leaves the site, the car park must revert to agricultural land.<\/p>\n

The Beaulieu Estate in South West Hampshire is situated in the National Park of the New Forest.\u00a0 The stately home of the Montagu family, and allegedly one of the most haunted houses in Britain, Palace House, Beaulieu was originally the gatehouse of the 13th<\/sup> century Beaulieu Abbey.\u00a0 Following the dissolution of the monasteries under Henry VIII, the property was bought by Sir Thomas Wriothesley.\u00a0 He later became the first Earl of Southampton (whose grandson was a patron of Shakespeare), from whom the Montagu family descends via a Scottish connection to the 5th<\/sup> Duke of Buccleuch and his wife, the daughter of the Marquess of Bath.<\/p>\n

Overlooking the Beaulieu river, the estate lives up to its name, \u2018beautiful place\u2019, and is a member of the consortium the \u2018Treasure Houses of England\u2019.\u00a0 It is not surprising its residents want to protect the area, which been important throughout history.\u00a0 The New Forest was once wholly a Royal Forest, William Rufus died there and the ancient woodland provided timber for the Royal Navy \u2013 there were Beaulieu Estate timbers in the ships that fought at Trafalgar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Outrage and Upset in the New Forest 1: The Lord of the Manor Is Upsetting the Neighbours! 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