Different Wild Camping!!!!!!!

[Polly]

In my home town (sounds good) the other week some 'travellors' wild camped on the public highway near enough blocking it.
The other year the council put some very large boulders across the road so that boy races couldn'y use it and also to try and stop the 'travellors from setting up home on the fields.
How do they manage to camp on the public highway (not the pavement) making it nearly impossible for Joe Public to use it.
If we went along with a few or even a couple of motorhomes and wild camped policeman plod will pounce on us surely.

We know how they get away with it but is it legal to set up home on the public highway (no laybys)

 

[t&s]

In my home town (sounds good) the other week some 'travellors' wild camped on the public highway near enough blocking it.
The other year the council put some very large boulders across the road so that boy races couldn'y use it and also to try and stop the 'travellors from setting up home on the fields.
How do they manage to camp on the public highway (not the pavement) making it nearly impossible for Joe Public to use it.
If we went along with a few or even a couple of motorhomes and wild camped policeman plod will pounce on us surely.

We know how they get away with it but is it legal to set up home on the public highway (no laybys)

we suffer the same problem here in dorset when in late aug early sept the largest steam fair in the world is held
the local allotments were ruind by so called travelers and it had to be closed
farm fences were just driven over and campsites set up
we as wild campers sometimes get tared with the same brush
i have a mate with a twin wheeled caravan and a large yanky 4wd to pull it he is always getting turned off carparks ,refused admition to camp sites and always getting stoped bill the old bill .
so i assume those problem travelers are noticed but i am afraid the discrimination laws allowes them carry on regardless
and we pay

 

[Trevor]

we suffer the same problem here in dorset when in late aug early sept the largest steam fair in the world is held
the local allotments were ruind by so called travelers and it had to be closed
farm fences were just driven over and campsites set up
we as wild campers sometimes get tared with the same brush
i have a mate with a twin wheeled caravan and a large yanky 4wd to pull it he is always getting turned off carparks ,refused admition to camp sites and always getting stoped bill the old bill .so i assume those problem travelers are noticed but i am afraid the discrimination laws allowes them carry on regardless
and we pay

It just shows that big is not always the best.

 

[PaulC]

As far as I understand it PC Plod has to get a court order, which takes time, before they can move travelers if there are 6 or more vehicles. However I think this may only apply to those trespassing on some land. On the highway if legal, which most are contrary to urban myth, I don't think a lot can be done unless there is some other legal issue!

 

[parkmoy]

Any vehicle parked anywhere on the highway can be deemed to be causing an obstruction and moved on by the police. Failure to do so can result in an arrest.

The difficulty is that when there is a large number of vehicles you are into a major public order scenario.

 

[guerdeval]

And public order issues are avoided at any cost by the police, they can have a much easier time booking motorists and catching up on paperwork, why risk a black eye

 

[draaiorgel]

One of our golden rules over the years was that we always parked more than 15 feet from the main road.
But at that time in the late sixties we always assumed it was the law.
Of course we always preferred to have a high banking or trees between us and the traffic. At one time we had a list of all our stopping places in many counties in England, I think we had 70 or 80 locations which we used 2 or 3 times a year.
The 15 foot is a good rule of thumb.