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Campaigning group to challenge Dartmoor back-packing Supreme Court case

Stall Moor common landowners, Alexander and Diana Darwall, have argued that the right granted to the public on foot and horseback on the Dartmoor commons, for the purpose of open-air recreation, did not include the right to camp

Chris Brayford

18 August 2024 • 2 min read

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"It would be unreasonable to exclude those who manage the land from exercising any measure of influence over the way that land is used in a form of environmental expropriation implied by the Court of Appeal."

A conservation group has been granted permission to intervene in a Supreme Court case about the public's right to camp on land in Dartmoor. Kate Ashbrook, general secretary of the Open Spaces Society,...

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Campaigning group to challenge Dartmoor back-packing Supreme Court case

Stall Moor common landowners, Alexander and Diana Darwall, have argued that the right granted to the public on foot and horseback on the Dartmoor commons, for the purpose of open-air recreation, did not include the right to camp

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Campaigning group to challenge Dartmoor back-packing Supreme Court case

Stall Moor common landowners, Alexander and Diana Darwall, have argued that the right granted to the public on foot and horseback on the Dartmoor commons, for the purpose of open-air recreation, did not include the right to camp

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