Overview
- Vivien Sheriff, owner of Harry’s Field in Hampshire, has applied to extend the campsite’s operating period from 28 to 52 days a year.
- Objectors cite screaming and late-night noise, trespass into gardens, urination on hedges, and claims that visitors placed children on donkeys and fed them doughnuts and biscuits, which is illegal under local rules.
- Veterinarian Helen Taylor, whose property borders the site, filed a detailed objection alleging persistent disturbance and repeated incursions, while resident Stephen Havelock raised fire-risk concerns from pits near gorse.
- Sheriff calls the backlash nimbyism and an orchestrated campaign, pointing to objections she says are duplicated or from properties too distant to be affected, including one echoing a complaint about a separate campsite.
- She says the site imposes a 10:30 p.m. curfew, bans amplified music, refuses group bookings, uses 24-hour wardens and kiln-dried logs, and notes no enforcement action and only one Environmental Health contact in 2020.