Petition Dartmoor

[1 shot willie]

Managed to find a petition regarding this.

http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/68882

Make your point by signing it......try to make a difference.......after 100,000 it can be debated in parliament

Please just add DONE if you do sign.

 

[1 shot willie]

Thats a blow......link not working

There must be another somewhere.

 

[1 shot willie]

 

[Ark79]

Bit of a rollercoaster of decisions I went through there bill

 

[Joecole]

Managed to find a petition regarding this.

http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/68882

Make your point by signing it......try to make a difference.......after 100,000 it can be debated in parliament

Please just add DONE if you do sign.

The link just comes up with a 403 error Bill

 

[1 shot willie]

Yeah Joe.....I noticed that too

 

[G1ZmO]

There don't appear to be any current government petitions regarding camping on Dartmoor

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[Ark79]

Are you shouting at the screen bill

Their rubbing it in mate

 

[1 shot willie]

Bunch a Bayyyyches Mark

 

[Big Red]

I have set up a petition myself, it’s to stop Bill from telling his jokes. We must stop this, so please sign as soon as you can, we have suffered enough.

 

[Paul N]

I have set up a petition myself, it’s to stop Bill from telling his jokes. We must stop this, so please sign as soon as you can, we have suffered enough.

I'll sign it! I like jokes but not when the subject is serious.

 

[Paul N]

The Hated Landowner – Legendary Dartmoor

www.legendarydartmoor.co.uk

 

[Paul N]

The Hated Landowner – Legendary Dartmoor

www.legendarydartmoor.co.uk

The link I originally posted doesn't work, the new one does.

 

[1 shot willie]

Both work fine for me Paul........good and interesting link,......... liking the poem

 

[1 shot willie]

I'll sign it! I like jokes but not when the subject is serious.

I have signed it too.....far too much nonsense being bandied around this forum

 

[CaveDweller]

The only link I can find for petitions on wild camping is an old one, which closed early due to a general election so I can't tell if it was ever submitted. It's on a different domain, but It has the same number as the one linked in the OP. Legalise Wild Camping in the UK . Looks like a refresh might be in order, it must have been done around 2015!

 

[Paul N]

There don't appear to be any current government petitions regarding camping on Dartmoor

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Petition: Enshrine in law rights to roam and wild camp in national parks

Pass legislation to protect people's right to enjoy nature, and prevent it being restricted by landowners, who we believe should not really be allowed to own land within national parks. National parks should be for all, and not turned into a commodity.

petition.parliament.uk

There is now!

 

[Big Red]

Sorry, but this Petition is very badly worded, “the recent overturning of people’s right to roam” is NOT what has happened! Totally wrong.

Saying that people should not own land in National Parks is just pure balderdash, there are many hardworking farmers within the National Parks, who, surely have the right to do what generations of their family have done to earn a living. These people are the guardians of the National Parks, not the enemy, and they were there way before these places were granted National Park status.

I have already stated my feelings on the recent judgement, but this whole issue has been highjacked by the “Right to Roam” brigade, who are putting an erroneous spin on it.

As someone who has been associated with Dartmoor for over 50 years, and worked for an Authority in the Park for over 30 years, the Right to Roam would be an unmitigated disaster for most people who call National Parks home. For goodness sake, there is enough space to roam without settling the family down for a picnic in a farmers field! There is enough trouble from those who leave gates open, leave litter, run their dogs and kill stock as it is, without giving them the “Right” to roam over private property.

I don’t own land, apart from my curtilage, but I do rent an acre of woodland for MY basecamp. If anyone wishes to gatecrash when I am there, especially with my Grandkids, because they think they have the “Right to Roam”……..Then good luck, because they will bloody need it if they don’t heed my initial polite request to leave.

This is not a petition I would give my name to, I speak as a very informed person……….Sorry.

Edit: I have just read that petition again………Absolute rubbish and incorrect.

 

[Paul N]

It will be interesting to hear what our Scottish contingent have to say, where the 'right to roam, and 'wild camp' has been enshrined in the Land Reform (Scotland) Act 2003. Problems, advantages, disadvantages, abuses etc. @Ark79 @G1ZmO Are you laughing at us Sassanachs?

 

[Ystranc]

Often the term right right to roam is misused by people who don’t confine their activities to “unenclosed land.” I’ve had tourists wander across my paddocks and follow the path into my garden before now, only to become abusive declaring that they didn’t see any signs saying it was private and resent being asked to turn back (Though they must have passed at least two signs or climbed fences) There is often a wilful assumption that the right to roam applies to the entire countryside rather than land which is designated as open access by the shaded orange boundary on an OS map...that is without starting on the more furtive types like poachers and doggers that used to frequent the place before we bought it off the 72 year old man who owned it before us.
The thing is that I’m happy for people to enjoy the countryside, even on my land but I do expect them to respect the land, our rights to property as well as my and my partner’s right to privacy.