{"id":1090,"date":"2026-01-01T23:59:39","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T23:59:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theskycam.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1090"},"modified":"2026-01-05T07:01:54","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T07:01:54","slug":"new-drone-laws-from-january-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theskycam.co.uk\/blog\/new-drone-laws-from-january-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"NEW DRONE LAWS FROM JANUARY 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <strong>1 January 2026<\/strong>, new UK drone laws will significantly tighten control of the airspace, lowering the registration threshold to <strong>100g<\/strong>. This means <strong>far more hobby flyers will be regulated<\/strong>, restricted, or put off altogether \u2014 while <strong>professionally trained, insured, and compliant operators will be in higher demand than ever<\/strong>. This shift strongly favours established drone businesses like SkyCam, creating a clear divide between casual flyers and trusted commercial operators. Getting in <strong>before the rules change<\/strong> puts you on the right side of that divide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From 1 January 2026, new UK drone laws will significantly tighten control of the airspace, lowering the registration threshold to 100g. [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theskycam.co.uk\/blog\/new-drone-laws-from-january-2026\/\">Read More&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> from NEW DRONE LAWS FROM JANUARY 2026<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1092,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"location":[2],"class_list":["post-1090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorised","location-home"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theskycam.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theskycam.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theskycam.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theskycam.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theskycam.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1090"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.theskycam.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1094,"href":"https:\/\/www.theskycam.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1090\/revisions\/1094"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theskycam.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theskycam.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theskycam.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theskycam.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1090"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theskycam.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=1090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}