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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Callum Parke

Calls for wider access to nature after Supreme Court ruling on Dartmoor camping

Campaigners and MPs have called for greater public freedom to wild camp across the UK after the Supreme Court ruled that the public has the right to camp on Dartmoor (Lucy North/PA) - (PA Wire)

Campaigners and MPs have called for greater public freedom to wild camp across the UK after the Supreme Court ruled that the public has the right to camp on Dartmoor.

Five justices unanimously ruled on Wednesday that the term “recreation” in the law governing the use of the national park in Devon – the only national park where wild camping is allowed – is used “without qualification as to the form which it should take”.

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