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In one way, the criminalisation of trespass is good. Stops the urban explorers breaking in to properties and farm land and barns, which is how the act is being spun.
Also not just wild camping it is also people who are vehicle dwellers (there must be a better term) that the vehicles that they live in can be impounded and destroyed.
lynx
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You may not realise but one element of this proposed bill is to criminalise trespass.
This will have a massive impact on where you ride. If you took a footpath to link two bridleways you commit trespass. At present if the owner was concerned they could take an action against you. Highly unlikely in most events, but even if it happened you would only be liable to compensate the landowner for loss they could demonstrate.
Once this act goes through parliament that will be a wholly different matter. You would be committing a crime.
Same if you were found wild camping during your overnight hike or ride (anyone stopping to kip during a long ride?) the landowner could cause you to be charged with a crime.
A crime to sleep out in our country. A crime to ride along a track that has no rights to cycle on.
We are sleepwalking into the most draconian change to our rights in over 200 years.