I know it’s easy to say and nowhere as easy to do but ‘fuck them!’.
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Oops maybe a touch of drink induced aggressive talking but why are people so judgey?
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I’ve got to the point in my life where “fuck 'em” is the normal answer now mate!
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Just come across this webpage which has some interesting stuff on it.
http://www.photographers-resource.co.uk/photography/Legal/Access_Rights.htm
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Interesting, but for me too much of a ‘for a quiet life stop what you are doing and move on’, which is strange as its supposedly to be an article pointing out your legal rights.
Also huge areas of it are wrong such as the not being allowed to take photographs on the railways with out permission.
Slight tangent. If you’re a national trust member. Vote on banning fox hunting on their land taking place. BREAKING: Voting opens to ban hunting on National Trust land
I would have thought a fox hunt charging through NT land would do a lot more damage to their land and wildlife than a drone at 100ft…Just saying…
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Or indeed a fox itself 
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Have done!
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I think it’s more to do with money. I expect these hunts pay, sorry donate to a worthy cause, quite a some of money to rage across NT land.
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I would agree. It would seem NT have also failed to notify members this vote is even open, or have buried it deep within some other communication. So they definitely don’t want an influx of no votes!
If it was to ban drones, I bet all members would have received a dedicated notice.
ETA: From a member friend: I found the email ref the AGM and the motion is listed, just missed significance of what it meant!
So yeah. NT not trying to make people too aware.
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I was going to add that but did not want to come across as cynical(although I am with anything to do with government or large organisations). 
Just had a quick look at their website … I have to say it’s refreshing to see something like this …
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I disagree.
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Basically an anti Karen policy, nice.
I emailed the National Trust recently to ask about using my drone for landscape photography in the Lake District in areas of open countryside where I’d be well away from people and property (i.e. not at their homes/gardens where there’s an entry fee). The Yorkshire Dales seem to have no problem with this. I got a reply from a rude and unpleasant woman who said that the Trust does not allow photography of its land for commercial purposes, and that if I didn’t like it I should stick to the Dales. This is contrary to the case of Bernstein v Skyviews 1978 where the judge ruled that Skyviews had acted legally in photographing Bernstein’s private property from a public place (in the air) for commercial purposes.
I came across this site: http://www.epuk.org which has an interesting FAQ section on photographers’ rights, including this:
Can I photograph on public rights of way without permission?
I assume you’re asking about public Rights of Way that cross private land. In general yes, you can film/photograph the surrounding private area, but there are a few things to be aware of. First that standing still or erecting a tripod can be considered an obstruction, for which you can be arrested by police, so try to avoid that. Second that National Trust, has sought to prevent commercial photography of any of their land, flora and fauna, or properties, from public Rights of Way (with no valid legal basis that we can see, just an irrelevant bye-law against hawking for trade). Third, that considerations of privacy may apply. You cannot, for instance, photograph through a window into a house interior to obtain a photo of someone.
I suppose this helps to explain why the NT don’t pursue the hundreds of photographers who are selling pictures of their land on the various online picture libraries.
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Did you ask as a commercial entity or as a hobbyist?
Hobbyist