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Flanders
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Firstly I would like to welcome myself as a new member and offer my deepest apologise if I indeed have the wrong section of the forum for this post.
However I would like to bring to your attention one and all the starting point for my campaign to reform the laws surrounding urban exploration.
Urban exploration is the exploration of man-made structures as we all are aware, usually abandoned ruins or not usually seen components of the man-made environment.
Photography and historical interest/documentation are heavily featured in the hobby and, although it may be seen as trespassing onto private property, this is not always the case and is of innocent intention.
The nature of this activity presents various risks of arrest and punishment at task payers expense for a hobby of interest.
The unspoken rule of urban exploring is "take nothing but photographs, leave nothing but footprints".
What I and we ask as a British society of urban explorers is that the trespass laws are reformed to be more suitable for those who choose the hobby and can prove beyond reasonable doubt of the law that there intention is that of urban exploration and not of intentional criminal actions.
What I respectfully request is that if you as an individual reading and as a forum community please sign this e-petition. It only takes a moment of your time and would greatly help my cause out. My cause is for all our potential benefit.
I need to collect 100,000 signatures which is a big ask however if I do collect the signatures, my e-petition could be debated in the House of Commons.
I have very limited time at the moment and I intend to do more than just this e-petition in my spare time. I aim to set up some form of charity funding and take this all the way so to speak. However this takes time and money.
We have a right to the hobby and an obligation as a British nation to document our beloved history for all the ages. We can dig up the bones of The last king of the plantagenet dynasty King Richard III in a car park of all places so why can't we urbanex? We are not criminals or trespassers simply historians of abandonments.
I trust you'll agree and help the cause. Thank you for you time and the Link to the governmental petition is:
http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/70115
Many thanks for reading and for all your support in this matter,
Regards,
Flanders
However I would like to bring to your attention one and all the starting point for my campaign to reform the laws surrounding urban exploration.
Urban exploration is the exploration of man-made structures as we all are aware, usually abandoned ruins or not usually seen components of the man-made environment.
Photography and historical interest/documentation are heavily featured in the hobby and, although it may be seen as trespassing onto private property, this is not always the case and is of innocent intention.
The nature of this activity presents various risks of arrest and punishment at task payers expense for a hobby of interest.
The unspoken rule of urban exploring is "take nothing but photographs, leave nothing but footprints".
What I and we ask as a British society of urban explorers is that the trespass laws are reformed to be more suitable for those who choose the hobby and can prove beyond reasonable doubt of the law that there intention is that of urban exploration and not of intentional criminal actions.
What I respectfully request is that if you as an individual reading and as a forum community please sign this e-petition. It only takes a moment of your time and would greatly help my cause out. My cause is for all our potential benefit.
I need to collect 100,000 signatures which is a big ask however if I do collect the signatures, my e-petition could be debated in the House of Commons.
I have very limited time at the moment and I intend to do more than just this e-petition in my spare time. I aim to set up some form of charity funding and take this all the way so to speak. However this takes time and money.
We have a right to the hobby and an obligation as a British nation to document our beloved history for all the ages. We can dig up the bones of The last king of the plantagenet dynasty King Richard III in a car park of all places so why can't we urbanex? We are not criminals or trespassers simply historians of abandonments.
I trust you'll agree and help the cause. Thank you for you time and the Link to the governmental petition is:
http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/70115
Many thanks for reading and for all your support in this matter,
Regards,
Flanders
