Parking: Well done Carlisle City Council (1 Viewer)

[mitzimad]

If you come to sunny Southend on sea and drive along the seafront easterly, until you hit the area known as Thorpe Bay, where the beach huts are, the side roads here are parking charge free.
You cant put tables and chairs out but there is a big grassed area where you can picnic.
Just keep a low profile ( no pun intended ) and you can stay overnights no problem..... appydays…

shame the put hieght restrictions on the beach at shoebury we used to go there regularly

 

[appydaze]

shame the put hieght restrictions on the beach at shoebury we used to go there regularly

You are talking about East Beach. Yes I am afraid we still have some morons on the council, but I think the real reason is because of the pike's always invading the place.

 

[GJH]

You are talking about East Beach. Yes I am afraid we still have some morons on the council, but I think the real reason is because of the pike's always invading the place.

If the reason for height barriers is abuse by some people then why label those on the council who try to protect taxpayers' money from wastage as morons?
It hardly helps the cause of people trying to increase provision for motorhomes when council members/officers read such comments.

 

[appydaze]

If the reason for height barriers is abuse by some people then why label those on the council who try to protect taxpayers' money from wastage as morons?
It hardly helps the cause of people trying to increase provision for motorhomes when council members/officers read such comments.

I'm afraid you don't know the council here.
Many folk here wonder why, as a seaside town, the council do not seem to take advantage of that.
Too many new ideas are rejected, too many to go into here.
The main seaside amusement park Adventure Island, has invested lots of money on the town and of course needs plenty of visitors to keep going.
The council in there wisdom has decided to build a multiplex cinema (although we have already got one nearby) and shops on the main parking place for visitors ( Seaway car park) thus negating any parking for visitors.
I don't know if you have ever been to the town, if you did perhaps
you may have come to see the carnival lights at night on the seafront.
Don't bother now as these have been done away with and replaced with ugly concrete lampposts. Etc. Ect.

 

[GJH]

I'm afraid you don't know the council here.
Many folk here wonder why, as a seaside town, the council do not seem to take advantage of that.
Too many new ideas are rejected, too many to go into here.
The main seaside amusement park Adventure Island, has invested lots of money on the town and of course needs plenty of visitors to keep going.
The council in there wisdom has decided to build a multiplex cinema (although we have already got one nearby) and shops on the main parking place for visitors ( Seaway car park) thus negating any parking for visitors.
I don't know if you have ever been to the town, if you did perhaps
you may have come to see the carnival lights at night on the seafront.
Don't bother now as these have been done away with and replaced with ugly concrete lampposts. Etc. Ect.

It seems much the same as Middlesbrough Council then.
However, despite them getting so many things wrong (which, sometimes, are a matter of opinion) they do get some things right.
Whilst anyone deserves adverse criticism for the things they get wrong nobody deserves the same for what they get right.

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[buttons]

I cant begin to imagine why anyone would choose to stay in Calisle, what is the attraction....

 

[chaser]

I cant begin to imagine why anyone would choose to stay in Calisle, what is the attraction....

this is a very good point, have you noticed, that where they are opening these parks up is where no one thinks of going and they are welcomeing the trade, but the ones that are closeing them are places that think they have enough without motorhomes

btw , this is the one that is £3.50 from your post in another thread

 

[buttons]

this is a very good point, have you noticed, that where they are opening these parks up is where no one thinks of going and they are welcomeing the trade, but the ones that are closeing them are places that think they have enough without motorhomes
btw , this is the one that is £3.50 from your post in another thread

Thanks chaser, yes I agree and this is the crux of the problem. Popular resorts/destinations are not in need of, or want to be bothered with the hassle of motorhomes, why would they encourage them.
Contrary to the common belief, motorhomes do not bring prosperity to popular towns.

 

[Hedgewitch]

I cant begin to imagine why anyone would choose to stay in Calisle, what is the attraction....

I did not share this as an overnight location, but as a decent place to park during the day.

 

[appydaze]

It seems much the same as Middlesbrough Council then.
However, despite them getting so many things wrong (which, sometimes, are a matter of opinion) they do get some things right.
Whilst anyone deserves adverse criticism for the things they get wrong nobody deserves the same for what they get right.

whatever!

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[jockaneezer]

Part of the reason for Carlisle council doing this is because they have banned motorhomes from most (if not all) their other city car parks.