NPDC in agreement with other councils on freedom campingGRANT MATTHEW/STUFF Mayors and deputies from 32 councils met with Tourism Minister Kelvin Davis on Thursday. "A camper itself has got to be fully self-contained before anyone can regard it as freedom camping," he said. READ MORE:* Fed-up mayors want national action on freedom camping horrors* Freedom camping: 'We all need to step up'* Queenstown freedom camping ban endorsed and extended* Freedom campers temporarily banned from Waiwhakaiho river mouth"If it's just a station wagon with a mattress thrown in it's not actually freedom camping. NPDC passed a bylaw allowing freedom camping in December 2017 which was revoked less than a month later after more than 40 complaints about freedom campers at Waiwhakaiho. "NPDC passed our freedom camping bylaw which basically welcomed freedom campers because we'd never had a problem with them before.

Source: Stuff March 09, 2018 04:18 UTC