Motorhomes over 5.5 m Banned
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which issues it should in your options take up.
Did I actually that? No I don't think I did, I think I merely stated that it should not contact each local authority on this matter. Perhaps that wasn't clear.
Would you like if the club lobbied your LA to change something in your own area? Or would you think the LA should be listening to you?
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There's nothing amiss with the way the OP was treated. People simply didn’t all agree with him. Had he been abused, posts would have been Deleted User as you know.
Btw, my 'erroneous' comment earlier was merely a repetition of statements from the club and not my personal proclamation.
'Bye, again. Ah, that was short lived - less than 20 minutes😀
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I asked you before in what way has he round up on and in what way do you not like the kind of reception he has got?
People have been polite and courteous in replying to him throughout.
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Update from CAMpRA regarding a new initiative to establish MH aires :
"We have now been given the OK to announce that CAMpRA have the support of the BPA British Parking Association.
CAMpRA were invited to speak at a meeting about the provision of Aires on UK car parks yesterday, attended by over 70 council car park managers.
The meeting was very positive with most of the councils looking to provide motorcaravan facilities.
Having the support of BPA is HUGE, they represent Car Parks all over the UK and have links with government departments.
Leadership have been working with BPA for several weeks but could not announce this until after the meeting.
So keep positive, keep campaigning by promoting the benefits of Aires.
We are getting heard 👍👍"It's nice to have some positive news after all the negativity.
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I've no doubt aires will come, and they’re already appearing in Scotland, but the East Suffolk situation seems to be about allowing, or not, the parking of larger vehicles by day which isn’t quite the same issue.
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The issues are inter-related. I suspect it will take quite a while for attitudes to change, but aires in the UK will come eventually, probably not in my time, but if MHs can tour without the need for a pre-planned itinerary, that will be great.
In the meantime, I will just have to continue to hop across (or preferably under) the Channel to a more welcoming environment - Covid permitting, of course.
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Once the present situation is under more control than at present, then those "stuck?"in their own countries,will be of the same,mind and if the growth of LVs situation as in this country is the same the other side of the Tunnel, then I can for see locals being of the same mind as here, when faced with the few who take advantage of anything that is free to them except there is a lot more space to do it
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You certainly, then, never been stuck behind a "caravan" of Italian M/H 's as they drive nose to tail through Scotland.
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Hi David, Being in a popular area we see a lot of foreign vans here however, the most I have seen in one place was 19 Italian MHs at Alderstead Heath.
Chatting to the warden I mentioned this and he said they had had 35 on site once!
They would all be lined up waiting for the bus to the station, and then the train into London, returning with armfuls of shopping bags.
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if MHs can tour without the need for a pre-planned itinerary, that will be great
It is not only about being able to tour more freely but about being able to park to visit attractions. This in turns results in income both for the car park owner and the local attractions. Isn't that what car parks facilitate? It makes no sense to ban or not provide dedicate parking spaces for motorhomes
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I can't see how falling/lower birth rates and large families are mutually exclusive? Lower birth rates could mean fewer babies are being born but those that are can be from lager families?
Also yes they do, from the families I know at present three or plus is the 'average'.
And in nay case travelling with extended families is certainly the norm in Italy.
Before all this I would certainly talk to many Italians on club sites, and they do travel in packs.
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English is the 2nd language of the world. If a German meets a Belgian & neither speak the others language most can speak English. Schools globally teach it as a 2nd language👍🏻
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😂 Someone mention me?😁
I’m not surprised places like East Suffolk are not wanting big Motorhomes in coastal car parks. First time out and about this year for us, and boy are there some huge MHs around at the moment, many more than usual, so I guess it’s part of the having to stay in this country at the moment. Lots of existing car parks simply couldn’t accommodate them outside of the coach bays, and many seafront car parks don’t have coach bays, they tend to drop off and then park up elsewhere. Our normal vehicle is a LWB Jeep, we have difficulty shoehorning this into most existing car park spaces, and actually getting out of said vehicle once parked up requires limbo dexterity and flexibility.
Suffolk area isn’t the only place to ban MHs from seafront car parks, we have come across it before, even with our 5.5 metre MH. Most places we have visited have other car parks not far away that will take said vehicle, so we do a bit of research before we head out anywhere new to us.
We encountered a “first” for us heading down here to Peterborough. We decided to do the A15 route, Sleaford to Peterborough. Just before reaching Sleaford turn off, we stopped off at a huge layby just after RAF Cranwell.We pulled up for a short break behind a caravan, also parked up. Sitting looking around us, we then noticed that the steadies were down on the van, it wasn’t hooked up to a vehicle, a LR Disco was parked up on verge alongside it. Bird feeders and two sun loungers neatly outside. Someone had found their quite hidden away spot for a bit of free pitching. Too many HGVs roaring through for us, but looked like it had been there a few days.2 -
Same down here in the SW TDA. Large vehicles crammed into small coastal car parks.
However I'm sure this will change when EU travel opens up. (I hope, otherwise things are going to become miserably overcrowded.)
I have to correct Deleted User User. In normal circumstances a lot of visitors come here from the EU. Scotland is a great attraction for many. This is an unusual year only seeing UK vans.
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Corners wrote "Lower birth rates could mean fewer babies are being born but those that are can be from lager families?"
The 'amber liquid" is a great aphrodisiac.
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I have read your post David and I think you might be out of touch with the numbers, pre-covid, who travel over here. UK tourism and popular TV series attract foreign visitors to camp sites. I've always been surprised how far many are prepared to travel, especially to Northern Scotland for instance.
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+1, whenever I visit Whitby the coaches full of Japanese & Chinese folk are surprising. Bourbon on the water too-all with arms full of bags & picture taking gear👍🏻😊
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Just to "kill 2 birds etc." (not my favourite saying) we came across a French couple touring in a motorhome in the car park at Thorpeness which sits just back from the beach. I mention it as I can't see it on the proposed "banned" list and it does take a fair size motorhome.
It was in late September/early October 2019. They were surprised to be having a conversation in French and were over to visit their daughter and SiL who lived in one of the areas surrounding London.
So there we are. A visiting foreigner and a car park adjacent to a beach area in Suffolk which will still take Motorhomes (unless they were freeloading).
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