Apologies as this may have been answered, but i’m struggling to understand it. I live in Northumberand and i have an area i would love to fly my drone as it’s quite quiet during the day.
There is public right of way right through the country park and i was under the impression that you could TOAL from public property. However there is something on their website that states:
“Launching drones from County Council land is only allowed with the consent of the Council and where a formal license agreement has been signed.”
Am i just misunderstanding or does this mean, that basically anywhere in Northumberland, i’m going to have to seek approval from the council first?
Let’s see what Northumberland Council said in a FOI request shall we ?
Hmm, seems they have no byelaws ( although I’d have to look at their policies )
Similar here in Derby, our council have no byelaws nor policies relating the the flying of drones from council run/ owned land, but their parks department state on their website that the flying of drones is prohibited (still didn’t stop me organising a meet up on my local park here last year )
You can fly there, I also see there is no bylaws as others have said whilst I was typing this so as long as you stick to the drone code your all good to fly, it’s only showing as a yellow ( hazard ) as it’s a park so it’s no problem especially with a sub 250g drone.
Edit : maybe not after seeing the bit in the link up above, you can’t TOAL from,
I only ever go by dronescene info so I’ve overlooked that one,
However surely they can’t stop you flying over it
Ahh cheers matey ( I’ve just edited to the correct link (as yours)
Seems strange that the council have no byelaws nor policies towards drones, but their parks department apparently do. Seems that like a lot of councils, departments don’t communicate effectively with each other ( nowt unusual I suppose )
Very confusing Kirky. On the one hand the council are saying there’s no byelaws or policies about flying drones from council owned/ controlled land, yet say you can’t fly in a public park ? If there’s no byelaws or policies preventing it, then I’d say you’re perfectly within your rights to TOAL from council owned/ controlled land ?
Yes I also get what your saying jock mate, as said up above I only ever use dronescene or trust rather with the option to go in & check the FOI bylaws etc, I’ve always said to myself along with all the other features within ( restrictions etc ) if DS / info within says I’m all good then as far as I’m aware concerned I’m all good & I’ll carry on regardless but that’s just me, of course others may have different approach & I thought id go in & edit whilst I could as I wouldn’t want to give misleading information, but if I were to fly there going on the bylaws I’ve seen that says ‘No’ none there the rules id be following or showing anyone if I got pulled up ‘ again ‘ that’s me tho & that would be my argument if one needed to be had as it’s there in black & white
The simple answer is that if a landowner has said no drone flying from their property, then they are legally allowed to enforce that under civil trespass law (or a byelaw if they have one).
A public footpath gives no magic rights which supersede it as far as I am aware.
Of course, in order to enforce .. they need to know who you are.
And in order to comply with their wishes … you need to know about them. i.e. they should have published their policy, byelaw in place you can read it, or put signage up.
If they haven’t, then personally I would go fly, under the assumption they don’t mind.
If then a landowner or their representative arrives and tells you ‘no flying from our land’ then just pack up, move on and cross that spot off your list.
(edit … for the commercial flyers amongst us, ignore the above. Its best to get explicit permission from a landowner to operate from their land)
It is like putting a no parking sign in the public road outside your house. It is not enforcable, some people may choose not to park there by choice but generally there is nothing to say they can not.
