The Great Outdoors

The right to roam can benefit everyone – including rural communities

IN JANUARY, as we learned the last measly pocket of wild camping rights in England was due to be extinguished, the Labour Party capitalised on the mass public outrage by announcing its commitment to a Right to Roam Act. But what exactly did that mean?

Labour was cagey, but the signs were promising. Rights to access ‘woodlands, cliffs, rivers’ were mentioned. Policy would consider the ‘right to experience’, and the ‘right to

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