In reply to Tom Valentine:
> Wild camping is not motorhome camping. As I understand it casual motorhome camping has never been allowed in Scotland in the same way as lightweight tented camping; people have been taking the piss and now the pigeons are coming home to roost.
The consultation does seem to be talking about both categories though. What they're actually proposing isn't all that clear to me but I guess that's to be expected from a brief summary when it's at an early stage.
Barring a truly vast array of cameras, I'm sceptical about how a numberplate recognition system is going to help them impose a charge on, say, van-campers but not visitors who just drive up and stay with family for a few days.
As someone who does van-camp* fairly often, I'd be pretty okay with paying a reasonable tax that went to the local area.
*Subtly and without leaving anything behind