Camping in Great Britain also known as The UK.

Here I go again moaning about the rules living in the UK -

Do you know the rules for Camping in a Tent, Touring Caravan or Motorhome in the UK, well you'll be surprised to learn that once you camp on a registered site over-night and leave the next day you can't return for over a year, yes a year you can stay on that site for up to three weeks but no more, you can't camp within a fifteen mile radius of that site under a year.

When you turn up to a camping site you book-in/register your details, those details are past onto the authorities, ok who's bothered about that, that's OK they the authorities are all watching us and there'll be big problems if you camp again there within a year.

My Late parents had to put up with those rules and the same rules are still law nowadays Britain is simply a "NANNY STATE".

I wonder what year did the British people lose their Freedom.
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SunshineGirl · 36-40, F

When you turn up to a camping site you book-in/register your details, those details are past onto the authorities

They are not. Data is gathered and held primarily for the benefit of the emergency services (to ensure that everyone is accounted for if the site has to be evacuated) and insurance (in case a guest causes damage or drives off without paying). Under the UK GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) data can be used for nothing other than the purpose it was gathered for.

People have this bizarre notion that there are whole government departments of people gathering information for no apparent reason. In reality, government has been cut back to the bone over the past 15 years and many essential services are barely functioning for lack of resource.

senghenydd · M

@SunshineGirl These rules for camping do exist, in the past Police have turned up at Anchorage Park Brecon and questioned me as to who I am what's my business what I am doing there where do I work etc.

Whether they actually save that data I can't say for definite I have been questioned on more that two occasions by our Police in two different camp sites hundreds of miles apart these sites are like Hotels everyone is registered whether or not the data is actually saved I wonder, I turned up at the same site 363 days later and was told by the owner I had returned under a year, I replied it was my Summer holidays I would stay a couple of nights and then move onto North Wales, he replied that was satisfactory.

SunshineGirl · 36-40, F

@senghenydd Did you ask the police why they were requesting this information?

The data is held for specific reasons in connection with the operation of the leisure site. The only way the "authorities" could use it is in conjunction with anti-terror legislation or if they had just cause to suspect you of having committed or being in the process of committing a crime.

Similarly, the "wild camping" thing generally consists of people pitching their tents on private land and then wondering why the owners get irate about it. Most land in Britain is unfortunately privately owned. Camp on genuine public land in Dartmoor (try to avoid the artillery ranges) and you will have a good night's sleep 😴

senghenydd · M

@SunshineGirl My Late Parents were read the riot act regarding these rules by Police down the South coast and up the Midlands they had a Tourer caravan Police do visit these camping sites.

My neighbour stayed two nights in his Camper-van at Brodawel Camp site Porthcawl and since leaving he has been contacted by Police who have informed him not to return there within a year, so in his case details were either passed on or the local Police there visited and checked the camp site register.

My neighbour is now considering selling his Camper-van as he doesn't like the rules.