Floods - Pastures Meadows storage site
As many will know south Yorkshire has been hit bad by flooding. If you have a caravan stored at pastures meadows storage site at mexborough you may need to check your vans. It would seem some people don't know its been flooded.
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Thanks for that.
I'll make this a 'sticky' for today in case it affects any of our members.
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Lots of very expensive vans in there. It flooded badly in 2007, so if anyone has commenced using it since that date, I would be wanting to know if owners mentioned area was prone to flooding. It’s on the edge of SY Navigation Canal, right where the River Don butts up to it, and where the River Dearne enters the Don. And it’s a known flood plain. Bad news for those storing there.☹️
Very close to proposed HS2 route as well.
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Pastures Road is now open to traffic so our customers can now get vehicular access to the storage site and our staff are on site to allow access to inspect your leisure unit.
By heck the website image tells me that I would not wish to store there.
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You should see the map image.... Dearne, Don and huge canal all within a few hundred metres. I know it’s bad because the son of my Mum’s best friend lost everything in 2007. His rather lovely cottage was right on the Canal side. He had had enough, moved away. That’s the Canal in the image, the River Don runs parallel out of shot. The Dearne enters not far away. Around half a mile away is a lovely nature reserve, lots of ponds and lakes. The road at that point is always wet, comes over causeway regular. Such a shame. It’s a Gold standard storage site as well, I think a few who post on here will be stored there.
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Our van just been condemned. The houses across the road were built in the last few years and water was just a few feet away.
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That’s terrible for you PtB. I don’t think you will be alone either sadly. Must admit, I have been wondering how that housing Estate is doing, although I think it is higher up than the storage yard. I recall the amazement locally when they started to build there after 2007.
Sincere hopes that everything is sorted smoothly for you.
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There are now houses on the site where I used to work, it flooded inside parts of the factory a few times while I was there, the site has just been raised so there is little chance of the houses getting wet. It just means that there will be more chance of the river bursting its banks further down stream
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Water Levels were about 30 to 36 inch. I think you can count on one hand the few who were high enough to avoid it. And it looks like quite a few managed to get their vans out in time. And I'm guessing some don't yet know the site has flooded.
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Sorry to hear about your van ptb. Hope that your insurance covers flooding.
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Yes covered for flood. Been told they've condemned it. So now on the market for a new caravan.
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That was quick work. Hope that you find one that you like soon.
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Did the owners mention the 2007 floods to you at all? It flooded then badly as well, although I am not sure just how much van storage was going on at the time, if any.
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Update today on the situation at Pastures Caravan Storage.
https://www.pasturescamperstorage.co.uk/pastures-caravan-storage-ltd-liquidated/
Edit, my apologies for the bad language lower down the page. I hadn’t realised the post allowed comments. But information that I hope helps a few.
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Best ignored. I didn’t see it prior to making link, as I say.
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We store our caravan on this site, well the flood damaged unit that is. Still waiting to finalise our claim (new for old). Im waiting to get the damaged caravan collected by the insurance company so i've no hassle, as its been one long journey. Now we find out the site is closing which we found out through social media yesterday. So not only have been without a caravan since November but know when the new one arrives we need to find alternate storage! At no point was I told by the owner's about its flood history. I found out from a fellow customer the day we went to survey damage to our caravan. Fortunately our insurance was sufficient to cover us. I have heard some people haven't been so lucky.
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Our claim has been settled and paid. Also received a refund for the remaining months left on the year's site fees from pastures. Did manage to find a storage site a few miles away at Wath. Collected our new to us van earlier this week. For anyone interested there is a storage site at Deepcar. Although it is at the side of the river Don, it is fairly high up. Plans for 300 + houses just down stream at the side of the river so must be a pretty safe area.
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My interesting comment I think. My 60k motorhome was parked there on that night of the floods.
No phone calls or anything to say they had reason to think things were going to cause any damage. Only by chance I phoned the wife for her to go take a look at the flooding situation down there (I was at work 30 miles away) did she say it was panic stations there and really needed to remove our 5 month old motorhome, she cannot drive it so had to then go back to get the father in law who had the correct license, they managed to get it out with around 20 minutes before the road was 3' deep.
A few days later we went down to see if we could park it back there as it was causing problems parked on our street.
We found they had put a caravan in our place, when I asked them to move it they refused ! Saying the owner wouldn't be happy.
Took another week before they moved it and we could take ours back to our paid for space.
We only found out a week ago they were shutting from social media posts, we received an official letter 3 days later telling us the sob story and the financial state. BUT the owners father was a good friend of my in laws and it's his daughter that has run it for the last few yrs. The statement says the business owes £200k to the landlord ! The landlord is the owners husband. It's a total tax and avoidance of liability scam, these people own that land and always have.
Apologies for the language but they ARE theiving Cu$%#
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