Enforce existing camping laws

Sir, - With reference to your article on wild camping (August 29), the perpetrators of this mess are not wild camping.

They are littering, causing criminal damage, indulging in anti-social behaviour and more.

All of these are existing criminal offences. The biggest problem is that none of these laws are enforced, so what is achieved by creating yet another law, that similarly will not be enforced?

While the people involved are in their tents overnight they are not generally doing anything wrong, it is when they go away and leave their detritus behind that the problem appears.

What these idiots are not doing is thinking things through, at the very least how they would like to find their chosen fishing spot for a pleasant weekend left like a rubbish dump?

Perhaps underpinning these actions is the belief that the role of local councils is to clear up everyone’s mess.

If the existing laws were enforced then the problem would disappear.

It is very tempting to create a new law to try to ban something that offends someone else. It is a simple soundbite beloved of politicians, civil servants and the media but the lack of enforcement resources is what has caused the problem not the lack of any laws. Nick Cole. Balmacron Farmhouse, Meigle.