http://www.dartmoor-npa.gov.ukNews releases from Dartmoor National Park AuthorityenDartmoor National Park Authorityhttp://www.dartmoor-npa.gov.uk/aboutus/news/au-geninterestnews/planning-a-sustainable-future-for-dartmoor-national-park2012-05-15 14:00:38http://www.dartmoor-npa.gov.uk/aboutus/news/au-geninterestnews/planning-a-sustainable-future-for-dartmoor-national-parkThe Dartmoor National Park Authority has submitted a development plan document (DPD) called the Development Management and Delivery Plan to the Secretary of State, for independent examination. The Plan, known as the ‘DMD’, sets out detailed development management policies covering, for example, housing, traffic and tourism, to guide development within the National Park. The document also contains site specific policies, such as allocations of areas of land for housing.http://www.dartmoor-npa.gov.uk/aboutus/news/au-geninterestnews/dartmoors-winning-landscapes-on-view-at-high-moorland-visitor-centre2012-05-14 13:00:01http://www.dartmoor-npa.gov.uk/aboutus/news/au-geninterestnews/dartmoors-winning-landscapes-on-view-at-high-moorland-visitor-centreA new exhibition opens at Dartmoor National Park Authority’s High Moorland Visitor Centre, Princetown, on Friday 18 May 2012. The Winning Landscapes exhibition shows how Dartmoor National Park has inspired world famous film producers and amateur photographers alike to capture its stunning beauty.http://www.dartmoor-npa.gov.uk/aboutus/news/au-geninterestnews/ian-mortimers-the-time-travellers-guide-in-a-medieval-dartmoor-house2012-04-10 14:07:22http://www.dartmoor-npa.gov.uk/aboutus/news/au-geninterestnews/ian-mortimers-the-time-travellers-guide-in-a-medieval-dartmoor-houseIn an event that promises to be a unique experience, Ian Mortimer will talk to a small audience about life in both the 14th and the 16th centuries in one of the very few fourteenth-century ‘ordinary people’s’ houses left in England: Higher Uppacott, now owned and run by Dartmoor National Park Authority.http://www.dartmoor-npa.gov.uk/aboutus/news/au-geninterestnews/dsdf2012-03-29 15:05:35http://www.dartmoor-npa.gov.uk/aboutus/news/au-geninterestnews/dsdfhttp://www.dartmoor-npa.gov.uk/aboutus/news/au-geninterestnews/hoppa2012-03-29 14:46:17http://www.dartmoor-npa.gov.uk/aboutus/news/au-geninterestnews/hoppaEaster Saturday (07 April) sees the Haytor Hoppa bus service start its fourth season. This year the Hoppa service will start at Newton Abbot Train Station before wending its way up on to Dartmoor via Newton Abbot bus station and Bovey Tracey. 20110419-hoppa-image-DNPA There are four journeys every Saturday starting at 08:55; 10:55; 13:40 and 16:10 and this services runs until the 27 October 2012.http://www.dartmoor-npa.gov.uk/aboutus/news/au-geninterestnews/enjoy-dartmoor-20122012-03-26 10:58:03http://www.dartmoor-npa.gov.uk/aboutus/news/au-geninterestnews/enjoy-dartmoor-2012http://www.dartmoor-npa.gov.uk/aboutus/news/au-geninterestnews/dark-skies-on-dartmoor2012-03-06 14:29:05http://www.dartmoor-npa.gov.uk/aboutus/news/au-geninterestnews/dark-skies-on-dartmoorAn exhibition which looks at Dartmoor in a whole new light will be on display at Dartmoor National Park Authority’s High Moorland Visitor Centre in Princetown from Saturday 10 March 2012. Dark Skies is an exhibition of night sky time lapse photography, light painting and dusk to dawn images by Lee Pengelly, Thomas Dobner and Joe Tuck.http://www.dartmoor-npa.gov.uk/aboutus/news/au-geninterestnews/high-court-to-rule-on-unauthorised-encampment-at-marley-head2012-02-29 16:30:44http://www.dartmoor-npa.gov.uk/aboutus/news/au-geninterestnews/high-court-to-rule-on-unauthorised-encampment-at-marley-headDartmoor National Park Authority has commenced injunction proceedings in the High Court in respect of the unauthorised encampment at Marley Head, South Brent. An application for an injunction was lodged with the High Court in Bristol on Thursday 23 February 2012 and court papers have now been issued for an initial hearing on 19 April 2012.http://www.dartmoor-npa.gov.uk/aboutus/news/au-geninterestnews/dmdpd2012-02-06 09:22:17http://www.dartmoor-npa.gov.uk/aboutus/news/au-geninterestnews/dmdpdhttp://www.dartmoor-npa.gov.uk/aboutus/news/au-geninterestnews/workshop2012-01-25 15:46:45http://www.dartmoor-npa.gov.uk/aboutus/news/au-geninterestnews/workshop‘Build a Bird, Bat or Bee box’ - a practical workshop Dartmoor's wildlife is a source of pleasure to local people and visitors alike. Those species which are easiest to observe are the mammals, birds and insects that share our homes and gardens. Dartmoor National Park Authority (DNPA) is organising a free workshop day on Tuesday 13 March 2012 to show just how easy it is to encourage bats, birds and bees to our houses and gardens, by providing them with simple ‘homes’. By doing so, we can ensure the continued wellbeing of these creatures, as well as having the enjoyment of watching them up close. The workshop will provide an introduction to the wildlife that you may find on your doorstep as well as information on their habitats and needs. The day will be divided into two parts: a walk and talk in the company of DNPA Ecologist Cate Jackson, and a practical workshop to construct various types of boxes to accommodate wildlife, working with DNPA Ranger and Conservation Works Team staff. The boxes that you make can be taken with you at the end of the workshop, to be put up at home.http://www.dartmoor-npa.gov.uk/aboutus/news/au-geninterestnews/experience-the-war-horse-landscape-in-dartmoor-national-park2012-01-10 09:51:21http://www.dartmoor-npa.gov.uk/aboutus/news/au-geninterestnews/experience-the-war-horse-landscape-in-dartmoor-national-parkExperience the War Horse landscape with Dartmoor National Park Authority on a specially organised guided walk to a War Horse film location.http://www.dartmoor-npa.gov.uk/aboutus/news/au-geninterestnews/stones-of-nationally-important-prehistoric-cist-reunited-on-whitehorse-hill2011-12-19 14:22:54http://www.dartmoor-npa.gov.uk/aboutus/news/au-geninterestnews/stones-of-nationally-important-prehistoric-cist-reunited-on-whitehorse-hillThe stones of the recently excavated Whitehorse Hill cist have been returned to their original location on northern Dartmoor by Dartmoor National Park Authority’s Archaeology and Conservation Works teams. The cist excavation revealed a collection of nationally important artefacts including beads, worked leather and textiles and cremated human remains.http://www.dartmoor-npa.gov.uk/aboutus/news/au-geninterestnews/importance-of-crossings-resting-place-recognised2011-11-30 11:48:00http://www.dartmoor-npa.gov.uk/aboutus/news/au-geninterestnews/importance-of-crossings-resting-place-recognisedDartmoor National Park Authority’s Conservation Works Team has begun a programme of vital work to protect important headstones in a Dartmoor graveyard. The work in Mary Tavy churchyard, the resting place of famous Dartmoor Writer William Crossing, involves cutting back trees, clearing scrub and repairs to grade II listed structures.http://www.dartmoor-npa.gov.uk/aboutus/news/au-geninterestnews/sustainable-development-funding-helping-projects-on-dartmoor2011-11-29 14:51:00http://www.dartmoor-npa.gov.uk/aboutus/news/au-geninterestnews/sustainable-development-funding-helping-projects-on-dartmoorA recent meeting of the Dartmoor Sustainable Development Fund (DSDF) panel has agreed to provide over £30,000 in funding for projects that demonstrate environmental, social and local economic benefits for Dartmoor as well as furthering National Park purposes. The meeting saw three very different projects receive funding.http://www.dartmoor-npa.gov.uk/aboutus/news/au-geninterestnews/new-guide-for-those-planning-development-in-dartmoor-national-park2011-11-29 14:49:56http://www.dartmoor-npa.gov.uk/aboutus/news/au-geninterestnews/new-guide-for-those-planning-development-in-dartmoor-national-parkA new guide has been produced by the National Park Authority to help provide advice to those seeking to carry out development in Dartmoor National Park.http://www.dartmoor-npa.gov.uk/aboutus/news/au-geninterestnews/prizegiving2011-11-21 15:00:48http://www.dartmoor-npa.gov.uk/aboutus/news/au-geninterestnews/prizegivingA prize giving event was hosted at Dartmoor National Park Authority’s Headquarters on Friday 18 November 2011 for winners of the ‘Capturing Dartmoor’ photographic competition, which ran earlier this year. The winners and their guests received a warm welcome from the National Park Authority’s Chief Executive, Kevin Bishop and were then treated to an interesting and insightful presentation on how to take great photographs by professional landscape photographer, Adrian Oakes.http://www.dartmoor-npa.gov.uk/aboutus/news/au-geninterestnews/prehistburial2011-11-15 14:47:50http://www.dartmoor-npa.gov.uk/aboutus/news/au-geninterestnews/prehistburialAn excavation, co-ordinated by Dartmoor National Park Authority, has discovered a nationally important collection of Early Bronze Age remains in a burial site situated in Dartmoor National Park. The discovery could prove to be one of the most important archaeological finds of the last 100 years nationally.http://www.dartmoor-npa.gov.uk/aboutus/news/au-geninterestnews/hedge-laying-courses-in-dartmoor-national-park2011-11-15 11:02:51http://www.dartmoor-npa.gov.uk/aboutus/news/au-geninterestnews/hedge-laying-courses-in-dartmoor-national-parkLearn to lay hedges using traditional methods and tools on a Dartmoor National Park Authority course to be held at Parke, Bovey Tracey, during January 2012.http://www.dartmoor-npa.gov.uk/aboutus/news/au-geninterestnews/celebrating-national-parks2011-10-26 14:04:44http://www.dartmoor-npa.gov.uk/aboutus/news/au-geninterestnews/celebrating-national-parksA stunning new exhibition by professional landscape photographer Adam Burton is on display at Dartmoor National Park Authority’s High Moorland Visitor Centre in Princetown.http://www.dartmoor-npa.gov.uk/aboutus/news/au-geninterestnews/appointments2011-10-26 12:15:34http://www.dartmoor-npa.gov.uk/aboutus/news/au-geninterestnews/appointmentsCaroline Spelman MP, the Secretary of State for Environment Food and Rural Affairs, has re-appointed Trevor Smale and Peter Harper as Members of Dartmoor National Park Authority for a further 12 months and 4 years respectively