In reply to David Barlow:
A little bit more detail here in the telegraph:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/06/03/wild-camping-scheme-suspended-c...
with the most accurate quote being "Quite simply, to camp in a location of somebody else’s choosing for a duration of their choosing is not wild camping, it’s camping on a campsite with no facilities."
Such a bizarre concept, but no doubt there would have been loads willing to pay, whilst the rest of us just kept on doing it discretely.