Authority given permission to challenge high court ruling in favour of landowner

Wild camping may once again be allowed on Dartmoor, after the national park was granted permission to appeal against a decision to ban it.

Alexander Darwall, who bought 1,620 hectares (4,000 acres) of the national park in 2013, took the park authority to the high court last year, arguing that the right to wild camp without a landowner’s permission never existed. In January a judge ruled in his favour, ending the decades-long assumption that wild camping was allowed.

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