Define wild camp?

[Admin]

Laws are written in "Legal English". Some words in Legal English do not have quite the same meaning as the English we use.
The term "Wild Camping" is not a legal description for vehicles; using Legal English, it is impossible to "camp" in a vehicle.
We have many English terms that are not meant to be taken literally. When I started sleeping in my van in lay-bys back in the 1980's everyone called it "Wild Camping", and that is where the forum name comes from.

Maybe we should have a word with Doggers and tell them that they have to change their name to a catchier one like "Having sex in a public place whilst others watch or join in". Don't get me started with Twitchers...

 

[marchie]

Laws are written in "Legal English". Some words in Legal English do not have quite the same meaning as the English we use.
The term "Wild Camping" is not a legal description for vehicles; using Legal English, it is impossible to "camp" in a vehicle.
We have many English terms that are not meant to be taken literally. When I started sleeping in my van in lay-bys back in the 1980's everyone called it "Wild Camping", and that is where the forum name comes from.

Maybe we should have a word with Doggers and tell them that they have to change their name to a catchier one like "Having sex in a public place whilst others watch or join in". Don't get me started with Twitchers...

Or Flashers, who are, of course, people with a penchant for switching their torches or phone lights on and off rapidly ... Except for the dodgy individual in the dirty Mac who, in the cold of Winter, can only leap out and describe himself ...

Steve

 

[Pudsey Bear]

I'll have to stop doing that if you're only going to take the pi$$.

 

[Moped]

what about the motorhomes that have full on board facilities that still choose to empty black waste in inappropriate places, you cannot blame one type of camper/ motorhome for everything.

That’s down to the poor judgement of the owners and surely the practice has to be condemned. It does nothing to further the off grid parking cause but then the planners and authorities have some responsibility for this issue through lack of proper facilities and the “use a campsite” attitude. Use of green fluids does open up the legal options for disposal and we use these on trips to Ireland which are 100% off grid.

This seems to be an entirely British thing though. Behind every bush on tracks and trails and roadside parking without facilities in France and Spain there is used toilet paper. Could somebody please invent loo paper that matches the colour of the terrain onto which it is dropped so that it is less obvious.

 

[Pudsey Bear]

Like brown? I do me best

 

[n brown]

i think the expression sounds better in French .
first time i saw ''CAMPING SAUVAGE '' i got a picture in my head of a snarling wild camper finding the erecting of a tent on rocky ground on a windy evening , much harder than he ever dreamed.

 

[Timberjack69]

As mentioned earlier down under in New Zealand we use the term Freedom Camping. Often this is motorised camping in the wild or it maybe on a layby on the side of the the road or it can be camping in or around a town, in an area desinated by the council for this purpose.
Generally vehicles need to be certified by approved inspectors as being self contained for water, toilet, washing facities etc.
Wild camping here would be in the forests or mountains in a tent or remote hut.

 

[guerdeval]

As mentioned earlier down under in New Zealand we use the term Freedom Camping. Often this is motorised camping in the wild or it maybe on a layby on the side of the the road or it can be camping in or around a town, in an area desinated by the council for this purpose.
Generally vehicles need to be certified by approved inspectors as being self contained for water, toilet, washing facities etc.
Wild camping here would be in the forests or mountains in a tent or remote hut.

I Love the idea of vehicles being “certified”, this would do away instantly with most of the van conversions being offered on EBay as ‘off grid’ when they’re actually nothing of the sort, most of them look like mobile saunas and won’t publish the actual weight when questioned, wonder why?

 

[GeoffL]

The layby bin thing is a bit silly, the bin wagons drive past the bloody things almost daily, so empty them once a week or whatever.

AIUI, the issue there is that even with layby bins, people still just chuck their stuff out of the window and so a council worker or two has to attend to litter pick. With this in mind, it's not cost effective to employ someone else to empty the bins and a saving to be had by removing them...

 

[Pudsey Bear]

But some do that anyway bin or not.

 

[CWH]

It does nothing to further the off grid parking cause but then the planners and authorities have some responsibility for this issue through lack of proper facilities and the “use a campsite” attitude. Use of green fluids does open up the legal options for disposal and we use these on trips to Ireland which are 100% off grid.

Apologies but I don't understand what additional options you're referring to -could you please explain? (may be due to different interpretations of "off-grid"?)

 

[trevskoda]

I have tried pitching a tent in the van but found it hard to hammer the wooden pegs in.

 

[Pudsey Bear]

I have tried pitching a tent in the van but found it hard to hammer the wooden pegs in.

This is a Paddy fault, you need self tappers