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The issue of freedom camping came up repeatedly at last week's Otago Peninsula Community Board meeting, at which Doc and the Dunedin City Council updated investigations into providing a campsite on the peninsula. <\/p>\n
Three residents also raised concerns about the ongoing two-year freedom camping trial at Macandrew Bay, with two saying they felt as if they were living in a ''camping ground''. <\/p>\n
The area at Macandrew Bay was among three across the city designated for overnight stops by freedom campers in vehicles without toilets, initially for a two-year trial, as part of an easing of freedom-camping rules across the city. <\/p>\n
Kelli Lamare said the trial had been rolled out in a ''completely unsatisfactory'' way, with the rules on numbers routinely breached and nothing done about it. <\/p>\n
''Campers' rights are being held higher than the residents','' Ms Lamare said. <\/p>\n
She would be ''completely devastated'' if the situation became permanent after the trial ended next April. <\/p>\n
Yvonne Temple said male campers urinated in the bushes where people played and a hypodermic needle had recently been found on the beach. <\/p>\n
''It makes me sick,'' she said. <\/p>\n
The situation would only get worse in summer, she said. <\/p>\n
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