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National park authority defends wild camping rights on Dartmoor
Wealthy landowners have filed a high court case to ‘clarify’ law around public access to the moor
www.theguardian.com
Some people just can’t leave well alone. I notice they’ve only owned the land a little over ten years and this is at least the second time they’ve been in conflict with hikers and the national parks authority over access issues.National park authority defends wild camping rights on Dartmoor
Wealthy landowners have filed a high court case to ‘clarify’ law around public access to the moorwww.theguardian.com
It made the Guardian too: Right to wild camp in England lost in Dartmoor court case . Not great news.Dartmoor landowner wins fight to ban wild camping
High Court rules that any camping on Dartmoor requires the consent of the landownerwww.plymouthherald.co.uk
I have never been one to protest, glue myself to a lesbian or climb a bridge with Greta Thunberg, but I if wish to camp within the original permitted area on my beloved Dartmoor then I bloody well will! No jumped up blow in will tell me any different.
It is totally unenforceable, so if Mr whatever his name is, wants to confront me up on the high Moor, my territory……..Then good f*****g luck with that chap.
I am born and bred Devon, worked on Dartmoor most of my working life and live in the National Park, Mr Jumped up Pr**k can go and **** himself, the ******* #*#£*@ .
And breath!
just called DMNP spoke to a very nice lady who told me they are meeting up with the land owners next week to try and sort out wild camping access to the moor minus the bit of land that stuck up knob owns she advised i kept an eye on their web site for updates
It’s fundamentally political, their thinking runs along the lines of “why should someone else have something that I do not?” They simply do not accept the fact that the countryside is not natural and requires upkeep, to pay for that upkeep you either have to make money off that land or absorb the costs. I absorb the costs of my land but it’s only a few acres, I couldn’t afford to do that if it were a thousand acres. Most of the truly wealthy landowners are heavily subsidising the large shooting estates with personal wealth earned elsewhere…be it hedge fund ownership or pop star royalties. I’m beginning to think that this may all have been a bit of financial arm twisting in order to extract funds through the national parks authority.One of the banners at a protest in Princetown, the fool can be seen hiding behind it. Well sorry chap, but if you were trespassing on my land with that attitude……I would not be kissing your ass! View attachment 117191
The banner right next to it was “RIGHT TO ROAM” a movement that is becoming increasingly hostile, a movement that I am becoming to dislike……Immensely!