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The ban on wild camping on Dartmoor has been overturned, following a successful appeal to the High Court by the Dartmoor National Park Authority and O ...
By stwhannah
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https://singletrackmag.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/dartmoor-camping-ban-overturned/
3rd thread on it
"ducks and covers"
Soz, I'm just not quick enough to beat you all to it and it automatically creates a thread when I write a news story!
(I didn't really report it as a duplicate thread as I was aware of the auto-post thread thing)
Pishy wet miserable day here, so this is some great news to brighten things up👍👍
What you need to do Hannah is use the search function. Oh.
On the ground it will make very little difference, but it’s the principle and precedent that matters.
Let’s hope it gives the access movement some momentum and the darwells regret ever starting this fight…
I know where I'd be sleeping tonight if I lived closer.
Hooray
Common sense and the freedom defeats greedy hedge fund managers.
Such amazing news! I am off to buy a small tent. Cant wait to take kids to the moor for a night under the stars. It makes a huge difference to know that your activity is legal especially when done with little ones.
Excellent news.
This and beating the Crims at the Oval in the same day.
Most Excellent.
Now... time to just get rid of the Monarchy as the origin of much of the shiiite land inacess in England and Wales.
Now… time to just get rid of the Monarchy as the origin of much of the shiiite land inacess in England and Wales.
That's not gonna make a difference now! The time for that was 950 years ago.
That’s not gonna make a difference now! The time for that was 950 years ago.
really? I wasn there then!
William the Conkerer may have claimed england belonged to him, but he's gone now. And who agreed with him anyway? Those that did probably did so on pain of death, or worse. do we stand for terrorism these days?
Just imagine though, there was an exact moment in the UK where for the last time ever some gangster stole a bit of land, killed the rightful owners or ran the farmers off their farms, and without any fear of repercussion could just say "that's mine now because I killed the people who used to own it". And that gangster's great great great grandkids quite likely still own it today and send their kids to study PPE at Oxford. That's leaving aside all the squatters- the people who've just claimed land for long enough that we treat it like they definitely own it, like the black cuillin and similar- all those rich landowners who're so desperately opposed to creating any sort of meaningful land register in the UK for, like, no reason at all and definitely not because they can't actually prove they own the land...
Here we go again. Fingers crossed once more that common law and common sense prevail.
The case hinged on whether wild camping counted as open-air recreation, leading to a long debate in the court of appeal. Lawyers acting for Alexander Darwall, the landowner, argued it was not, because when camping one was only sleeping rather than enjoying a particular activity.
Surely anyone can see that the sleeping is an [I]integral part[/I] of the recreational activity, and no-one is trekking out to Dartmoor simply because they need a bed for the night?!