The Queenstown Lakes District Council's Freedom Camping Bylaw, adopted in 2012, is scheduled for review in the next 12 months.
At last Thursday's community and services committee meeting, regulatory manager Lee Webster said council staff and the Department of Internal Affairs were looking at some of the challenges the district had faced in recent years.
That information would be combined with feedback from other territorial authorities ``to try and improve the situation for everybody''.
``The Minister will be getting a report ... looking at the issues that we have ... what's working and what's not working.''
Mr Webster told the Otago Daily Times one of the problems the council faced was land the legislation covered.
``It covers us, obviously, as a council, it also covers Department of Conservation, but it doesn't include NZTA [NZ Transport Agency] and it doesn't include Linz [Land Information New Zealand] land.
``So, someone might be freedom camping on Linz land, for argument's sake, and they think it's council ... Linz can't enforce it and council can't enforce it.
``It's things like that we want to have a look at and say `is that something that could be addressed?' so that we have the opportunity to enforce, where it needs to be enforced, on all land - not private land, but with other agencies.''
Mr Webster said he had also advocated for feedback to include the difficulty of collecting fines from freedom campers.
The ODT reported in January that almost 70% of the $200 fines slapped on freedom campers in the district since July 2015 were unpaid, costing ratepayers more than $400,000.
QLDC statistics showed that of 3480 fines issued from July 2015 to November last year, only 948 had been paid. Taking into account fines cancelled (two) and waived (434), this meant only 31% of fines were paid.
At last week's meeting, Mr Webster said while freedom camping numbers this summer did not reach the anticipated levels, ``it's not dropping away''.
``We're maintaining the same level of enforcement - we're looking to do more of that when the need arises.
``There's certainly more work that's necessary. We will continue pushing,'' he told the committee.
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-"The ODT reported in January that almost 70% of the $200 fines slapped on freedom campers in the district since July 2015 were unpaid, costing ratepayers more than $400,000."
Uncollected fines are not a "cost" by definition.
-"Mr Webster said while freedom camping numbers this summer did not reach the anticipated levels, ``it's not dropping away''."
ODC held on to the idea that freedom camping was exponentiation; despite the fact that freedom camping peaked after the RWC and in recent years has grown slower than the rate of total tourism to the country.