Fare picnic a Dartmoor è violazione di domicilio, dicono alla corte gli avvocati del proprietario terriero | Accesso allo spazio verde
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/oct/08/picnicking-on-dartmoor-is-trespassing-landowners-lawyers-tell-court
di CoastLeather
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*The public should have no right to undertake any activities other than walking or horse riding in the Dartmoor national park without landowner permission, Timothy Morshead KC told a supreme court hearing on Tuesday.*
*He is acting for Alexander Darwall, a multimillionaire hedge fund manager, who has been pursuing the matter through the courts as he does not want people camping on his land without his permission.*
> Darwall, Dartmoor’s sixth largest landowner, bought the 1,619-hectare (4,000-acre) Blachford estate on southern Dartmoor in 2013. He offers pheasant shoots, deerstalking and holiday rentals on his land.
Sorry chaps, this land is reserved for rich people that want to kill animals for fun.
I like how during the previous case, advocates for wildcamping argued that interpreting the law to restrict camping may also lead to further restrictions on anything other than walking or horseriding, and then this rich arsehole went “Oh great idea” and decided to try just that.
We should confiscate his property. I don’t want to establish any precident around this or change property law or anything, I just think we should go “Yeah you’re an arsehole, we’re taking your stuff” because it’d make him really mad and he deserves to be mad.
The judge at least sounds like he isn’t too interested in the arguments of this wannabe feudal lord; like he says landowners still have the right to take trespassers to court if they do actual damage.
If this guy didn’t want to have to deal with land which has very permissive rules regarding public access maybe he shouldn’t have bought it 28 years after said rules were passed.
For a UKIP donor, Darwall seems to really dislike British traditions
Last time they tried to argue that only recreation was allowed, and that sleeping in a tent wasn’t recreation because it isn’t “fun”
I grew up in Yorkshire and am a keen hiker. I’ve spent most of my life traipsing around the York moors, the Peak District, the Lakes. Everywhere I’ve ever lived its been totally normal on a saturday or sunday to go for a ramble for most of the day. Oftentimes these would involve no planning at all, just a sort of vague destination and set off.
Nothing was more culturally shocking to me than living in Somerset for a while and discovering what sway the aristocratic landowners still actually have on this country. It actually got a little sad how many times I’d spot a cool site on Google, start looking at a route, only to discover I’d have to cross some private estate to get there making it kind of impractical for a day trip. I genuinely never realized this country was like that, I thought we were very much for the ideas of common ownership of our nature and free roaming the lands.