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I work in the tourist industry and on my travels I had an informal discussion on the issue of motorhomes recently with the tourist development officer for a public body. There is a deliberate policy to discouraging motorhomes in some towns and specific tourist attractions. Here is a summary of the points involved :
Fire : A motorhome in a municipal car park is a fire risk and the authority has a statutory obligation of fire protection.
Insurance : There is an issue of public liability and insurance premiums of the local authority can increase where overnighting is allowed in car parks.
Trade : The council is tasked to encourage tourism to local B&B and hotel accommodation and motorhomes detract from this initiative.
Trespass : Public parking and land open 24hrs a day attracts travellers who wish to establish permanent residency on council property and eviction is often a lengthy and costly process.
Antisocial behaviour : Many municipal car parks attracts gangs of youths at night particularly those involved car trailing. Locking car parks overnight discourages this type activity.
Crime : Car parks are covered by town security and CCTV operations. It is prohibitively costly to maintain such service overnight and valuable vehicles parked overnight encourages crime.
Licensing : Local authorities have licensing and planning control over dedicated caravan parks and in this way can maintain high standards of accommodation and provision. This is not possible in cases of municipal overnighting of motorhomes.
Refuse disposal : A motorhomer does not contribute to the local income in the form of local taxation but requires refuse disposal facilities for which the local authority incurs a cost.
Public conveniences : Regardless of the issue of vandalism, conveniences situated in municipal parking areas are closed overnight to discourage undesirable sexual activity.
Any comments ?
Drifter
hi IT has been mentioned in other threads and posts some councils do put
MH friendly parking has in hunstanton .
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