Dartmoor park launches attempt to appeal against wild camping ruling

Lawyers argue judgment to end wild camping without landowner's permission may be flawed

A landowner who successfully overturned the right to wild camp on Dartmoor may have to return to court after the national park announced it was seeking permission to appeal against the decision.

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