Living in Surrey and working for the Open Spaces Society. Married with two horses. Now on Bluesky @pannageman
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Wild camping <is> lawful on Dartmoor: Supreme Court has the final word. S.10 of the Dartmoor Commons Act 1985 does confer a right to wild camp, subject to compliance with byelaws and restrictions. Blog about judgment: Wild about camping pannageman.craddocks.co.uk/2…
ALT View up rocky valley on Stall Moor, stunted bushes visible on skyline around rim.
Corner Drove & Brazen Street today confirmed added to definitive map as restricted byways on historical evidence (including 25 years of LA maintenance) at Ware in east Kent, following apps by BHS in 2019. Intersect here: streetmap.co.uk/map?X=628461… Background: craddocks.co.uk/apps/index.h…
ALT Green lane with tall hedge on right
It was John Prescott who made the Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000 happen. Michael Meacher was committed to the new statutory access rights in Part I — but only JP had the political levers to pull in no.10 to overcome its instinctive aversion to taking on the landowners.
I am grateful to the late John Prescott for two things in particular, his announcement 29 Sep 1999 that @NewForestNPA & @sdnpa would be national parks, and his leadership on the Countryside & Rights of Way Act with greater freedom to roam @Campaign4Parks @RamblersGB
Today's #wildcamping case starts in the @UKSupremeCourt, court 2. A short point of statutory interpretation. Lord Reed says court has not found assistance in submissions suggesting interpretation can rely on proceedings in Parliament on Dartmoor Commons Bill in 1984–85.
TM concludes on byelaws, saying they came too late. He says DNPA theory is that bad camping is prohibited by Sch.2, but Sch.2 has nothing to say about that. The 1949 Act also contained controls for landowners, but still offered compensation.