National Trust Pilot Scheme

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dewi

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That's pretty much the point, how will it be enforced?

It will cost the Trust more to enforce this than it is worth, so the businesses using the public land to educate others should just ignore it. If it is ignored, it forces the Trust to enforce it and then they'll realise that it isn't worth it... the only reason this will succeed is if the people using the land for the betterment of others actually pay up.

Look at past ill-thought out enforcement attempts. The smoking cessation officers... they patrolled the shops and businesses to ensure they had a sticker in their window that told people not to smoke... in businesses that people didn't smoke in the first place. How many times did you see someone smoking in a clothes shop or a sweet shop before the legislation and the smoking cessation officers patrolling? It didn't happen, so these people were employed to do a non-job.

The Trust will have the same problem. If they attempt to enforce, how do they identify someone running a business teaching people about the outdoors and a charity organisation who offer the same service for free? How do they patrol acres of land every day to ensure their pilot scheme is enforced? And what is to stop people tell their enforcement officers to go forth and multiply? What authority will these enforcement officers have? And wouldn't their time be better spent elsewhere?
 

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