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Originally Posted by Mick
Then it is not a remote spot is it, if it is a popular place and plenty of people go there, the very idea of going for a remote exercise, going to random remote areas, is knowing there will be no other people there and that is my point Chris. Perfectly possible to sustain self isolation.
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It’s 25 miles outside the city in a location that has the reputation of being isolated, because it’s at the end of a no-through road. I absolutely agree, if you know a secret isolated spot where you won’t meet anyone, knock yourself out, enjoy it - if it’s that out of the way, the police won’t find you anyway. The problem is with places that everyone believes to be isolated, and it’s not until they all show up at once and break the all-time visitor record (as happened here, and at other national park locations around the UK) that trouble brews.
The limitation with using primary legislation to try to manage this is that there’s no safe legal definition of what is isolated and what isn’t. If it were necessary to have such laws permanently (thankfully it won’t be), then they would end up with a massive Schedule to the Act listing locations, because there would be no other legally watertight way to do it. As we don’t have any of that, it’s not surprising that there are continuing disagreements over what is allowed, what should be allowed, and how the police enforce it.