• Elkenders@feddit.uk
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    11 months ago

    Hopefully the kind of people who would care about this being lawful are also the people who would clean up after themselves.

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldB
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    11 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    Ruling on the appeal, Sir Geoffrey Vos, the master of the rolls, said wild camping counted as “open-air recreation” as allowed in the 1985 Dartmoor Commons Act.

    The shadow environment minister, Alex Sobel, said: “Labour would legislate so that people visiting national parks have the right to wild camp, as well as expanding public access to woodlands and waterways.”

    Similar models that enshrine the right to wild camp as part of a broader freedom to roam exist in Europe.

    “Recognising the long tradition of this low-impact way of accessing and enjoying our protected landscapes, Campaign for National Parks believes there is a case for the creation of a rights-based approach to leave-no-trace wild camping on open access land in National p arks (England and Wales),” he said, “This would be contingent on the successful completion of trials to assess the impact of wild camping on communities and the local environment.

    “As a minimum, this can be achieved through amending Crow to include wild camping as permissible outdoor recreation, with an accompanying responsible access code of conduct.”

    We have an aim we would like to see in manifestos that every school child should have a right to have a night under the stars in a national park near to them, so they would realise from a young age why these landscapes are precious.


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    11 months ago

    I’m sure they’ll change their mind at some point. Seems to be a common thing with them

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        11 months ago

        Wait didn’t the last Labour government want to increase detention without charge to 90 days or something?

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          11 months ago

          Wouldn’t surprise me. Does one thing prove they’re worse than the current government that has been nonstop bad things? Whataboutism bs.

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    11 months ago

    You guys have twice the population and a 1/10th the land area of us Canadians and yet we need day and overnight passes for our national parks that we can only obtain through a lottery system 😭