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Trespassing

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Subject: Trespassing
From: "Rosemary Royle" <>
Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2010 11:44:49 +0100
The new "Right to Roam" legislation in the UK is similar to Allemansrätten but 
it is limited to specified areas of land which you would normally think of as 
being an "open space" - e.g. heathlands, moorlands, mountains, forests etc.even 
though this is of course all privately owned. Cultivated land is not included 
and there are also some exclusions for nature reserves especially in the 
breeding season. Also there is no right to camp or cycle and certainly not to 
pick anything (flowers are legally protected in the UK) though I am sure no-one 
would mind you picking blackberries.

This legislation was quite controversial but it seems to have been very 
uncontroversial in implementation - most of the projected issues have not 
really arisen.

Future legislation will address access to the coast - which is in any case 
pretty good in most of the UK as, generally speaking, building next to the 
coast has not been allowed for ages. (We are horrified when we see beachside 
lots for sale in other countries, especially when as in Queensland, they are 
also covered in rainforest)

Rosemary Royle
Wales, UK




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