{"id":7425,"date":"2022-08-26T04:02:42","date_gmt":"2022-08-26T04:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/2022\/08\/26\/campsites-call-for-new-rules-to-stay-open-longer\/"},"modified":"2022-08-26T04:02:42","modified_gmt":"2022-08-26T04:02:42","slug":"campsites-call-for-new-rules-to-stay-open-longer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/?p=7425","title":{"rendered":"Campsites call for new rules to stay open longer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Farmers, pub landlords and rugby clubs are among those calling for changes to allow pop-up campsites to open for longer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Currently, pop-up campsites &#8211; which often consist of little more than an outside tap and basic toilet facilities &#8211; can only open for 28 days a year in England and Wales. No licence is required and special planning permission isn\u2019t needed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">During the Covid-19 pandemic the limit was increased to 56 days which led to hundreds more pop-up campsites opening so they could bring in extra revenue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">But it is now back down to 28 days and camping website Pitchup has launched a campaign to scrap the limit and allow the sites to open all summer long.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">The BBC&#8217;s Kristian Johnson joined campers at a pop-up site.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-62665249?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=KARANGA\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Farmers, pub landlords and rugby clubs are among those calling for changes to allow pop-up campsites to open for longer. Currently, pop-up campsites &#8211; which often consist of little &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7426,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7425"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7425\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}