Should NZ ban Freedom Camping? by Ben H

Should NZ ban freedom camping?

I think New Zealand should not ban freedom camping because it is not fair for some freedom campers who eat, sleep and live in a freedom campervan. If people are not allowed to freedom camp they will have to find a place to live otherwise they would have to live on the streets just because some people don’t follow the rules..

Some people think they should ban freedom camping for many different reasons like they litter everywhere and they do many more other wrong things. Although I understand where the Council’s are coming from it is still the wrong decision to make and it is a bad idea. They should provide particular areas where people are able to freedom camp. The Council and the Government should put some funding into freedom camping because it would stop people littering and and it could reinforce New Zealand's green image.  

The Government should put more bins out, provide more modern toilets and more convenient toilets.  Hopefully this will stop people doing their business in the forest and parks.. New Zealand should also have more dump stations so tourists can tip their bins in the correct places. Due to people doing the wrong thing five areas around Christchurch have been shut down till further notice.

Some people who are against freedom camping think that they are polluting New Zealand but actually it is hardly the freedom campers who are polluting New Zealand it is mainly us. People at schools, people at work and people at parks. They all drop rubbish wherever they go but they have not been banned. So if school kids drop rubbish would they get banned from their school. ‘No they wouldn’t’. But if freedom campers litter which they are doing also. They are getting banned and it is just not fair on the freedom campers.

All and all it is not fair on freedom campers who are getting kicked out of their campervans for polluting and for overrunning some places in New Zealand because everybody else in the country is doing the exact same thing as the campers. But yet they are still getting declined a place in travelling around New Zealand. If they follow the rules they should be allowed to freedom camp wherever they are.