Corona Virus Concerns
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notwithstanding the overnighting, which i agree isnt allowed, I think you and i seem to have a different definition of 'local'..
even if there was a 'stay in your own county' directive, its perfectly possible for folk (in cars or MH) to come and visit 'your' town for the day from 50 miles away of more....say Basingstoke to Milford on Sea...
now, under a rule like that, they would be 'local to that area' (same county) but im pretty sure that you would disagree...
that's life, im afraid.
stay well.
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certainly has Alan...and a great one for discussing teaching...ad nauseum...
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Relax fish, by the time the Govt have emptied the coffers there’ll be no paying for your way of life, you won’t feel hypocrisy you’ll be proudly standing on your own 2 feet. . .Sink or swim-that’ll be a nice change for you, particularly the hobby farmers👏🏻👏🏻😊
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I have a solution to the problem of too many people visiting the tourist hotspots. If the government were to ease the lockdown completely and get everybody back to work and into school. The only people able to visit these areas would be the retired folk and they are too afraid to go out anyway so job done. The economy would also not be ruined (although it may be too late for that).
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I have to say that the mainly campervanners and some Mh owners are not exactly endearing themselves to our local population either.
Over the past 2 days we have had similar problems to those experienced in Devon & Cornwall, whereby they have been expecting to sleep overnight in their LV's in car parks clearly displaying signs saying no overnight habitation and in contravention of current lock down rules. .
they are also arriving in groups and setting up campsites with a dozen or more people sat around bbq's, hardly in the spirit of lock down.
thankfully the police and LC officials are doing a good job of moving them on, and many of our beach side car parks and public toilets are still closed.
I have had to abandon using the beach cycle path as a result of some of this and revert to using the road. I appreciate the need for people to get out exercise and get some fresh air in their lungs but showing consideration for others is the name of the game in my book.
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It's been pretty gruesome reading TV reports about the behaviour of people on the southwest coasts. Much better to open toilet facilities as nothing is going to stop them flocking to the sea at the moment. The forecast for the coming days is warm and sunny. Why they want to crowd together in the present circumstances is difficult to understand. Maybe it's the "won't happen to me" syndrome?
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In the reports I read there was no mention of any fines for the Camping MH's. Just that they were asked to move on after the 6am raid. This was clearly going to happen. It would have made sense if it was addressed directly in the legislation, with say a £500 fine. If you didn't pay they could always go after the asset.
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Agree brue. However, forget about present circumstances, there is no way I want to go and sit on a beach with crowds like that under any circumstances.😀 The current situation reminds me of a documentary I watched many years ago on Lemmings, where they all ran off a cliff and killed themselves.
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Reading the posts on here that caravans and motor caravans were parked nose to tail in a residential area, ,were they of the fraternity that tend not to normally use authorised stopping places ,if so i am not surprised if fines were not issued ,which would have antagonised the problem
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If you mean travellers, no they were not.
Whether they would normally use sites is anyone's guess.
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So you do not agree that there are also others? who give most of the LV users a bad name ,is what i was refering to ,i cannot see any of my post that mentions any particular group, but as i pointed out in my second post, the media did it seems not tell the full story as usual ,as long as it makes for them"good? "news
There are numerous groups who use LVs that i would not class as "travellers"
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Maybe if you'd explained exactly what you were asking instead of being vague then we'd have answered differently.
As it is, you'll need to draw your own conclusions because the answer you want is unknown by all except the LV-ers themselves.
End of, really.
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To be fair BB unless you live near a beach you wouldn't have a clue how bad it can, and on Wednesday, did get. It was an invasion! The people who travelled here were not local or anything like. The report said roads Into Devon were gridlocked, now there aren't many roads into Devon so easy to monitor. The people from Cornwall weren't travelling here, as you say, they have their own beaches. People from Somerset, they have their own beaches. So an In County or 50 mile limit to travel would have been the way to go for the Government. Not only was Wednesday a lovely day, the Surf Was Up. Do you know how quickly this gets round on social media with would be surfers, from all over the country. So there were youngsters in vans everywhere. Local proper surfers were appalled at the recklessness of some of them, No RLNI on the beaches.Added to this all the families. As for opening the toilets! Would you want to clean them at the moment with 1000s using them and the virus about. The owners of the car parks and the local council have met and decided the car parks and the toilets will remain closed. The parking wardens won't run out of tickets this Bank holiday and the signs saying ' visitors are not welcome here at the moment', not to mention the ones some of the locals have now put up ,will remain . Relying on people's 'common sense' was a big mistake.
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Whoever they were I presume they took their rubbish and waste home with them?
If I was the policeman knocking on the door at 6 a.m. I'd hand them a fine, then hand them a breathalyser for good measure!!
JK
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No problems with on our beach, be interesting to see if this weekend will be different.
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