The group wants the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) to give it a camping exemption certificate, which allows it to operate camps for more than 28 days a year. Its last certificate expired on 23 November last year, and had not been renewed because of a dispute with Chichester District Council over the group's Park Farm camp site, in Lurgashall in West Sussex (YPN, 12-18 October 2005, p2).
Residents of the village have complained of noise and litter caused by young people using the site, and of traffic associated with the site blocking the narrow lanes around the village. The Woodcraft Folk insisted it had done its best to introduce measures to address the residents' concerns.
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