National's tough new crackdown on freedom campersBEN HEATHER/STUFF Campervans at the freedom camping hot spot One Mile carpark near Queenstown in 2009. Freedom campers have been a major problem for the tourist town. National is promising a crackdown on all freedom campers - banning all campers without built-in toilet facilities from parking more than 200 metres from public toilets. It would continue to allow all councils and the Department of Conservation to ban freedom campers from certain areas. SUPPLIED Freedom campers at French Farm on Banks Peninsula pack into a small section of foreshore behind a 70km/h road.

Source: Stuff August 26, 2017 00:00 UTC