Parking a motorhome

It is the few as usual spoiling it for the many by as i posted earlier their lack of consideration for others and local enviroments

The year of the staycation has certainly made a few councils wake up and smell the coffee. Is change on the way?

Not seen a lot of evidence of it PD. I have not detected a massive shift from councils generally.

When we got our first motorhome (never had a caravan) our main thing was we did not want to use the vehicle once on site.  We have toured the UK for the last 7 years.  Most of our touring is 2 nights on a site then move on.  Once on site we either walk, use public transport or we have a scooter on the back of the van for shopping trips or to go a bit further.  We have never found this a problem and love the relaxation it brings, often we talk to people on site in caravans and ask have you seen something which is 10 minutes walk away and they will say "no but we have been to so and so" which is often 20 miles away.  Often we only move 20 miles to the next site and then start again

There really is little need to use the van on a daily basis, your on holiday sit back relax and loose the stress that driving nearly always brings now days with busy roads and difficulty parking

Sorry, forgot to add

Birmingham can be easily reached by public transport from the CMC site at Chapel Lane.  No traffic stress, no parking stress on arrival and often the cost of public transport is cheaper than the cost of a days parking in the city 

Sit back relax let someone else drive and you often see more as a passenger than you ever would as the driver

Aye, but I bet you still visit public loos whilst off site, and pay for a meal in a cafe etc.... or eat your sandwiches in the rain! But that’s your choice, and I respect it. 😉

Not a massive shift but as TW says change is creeping in and hopefully we will see it accelerate to make touring for motorhomes in the UK much easier.

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 ... and often the cost of public transport is cheaper than the cost of a days parking in the city 

Don't use Cambridge's Park & Ride then 😉 .... far cheaper to pay for the parking 🤔

One of the diminishing  advantages of being old, a free bus pass

Both campsites within Cambridge City limits have good bus services fortunately.

Think we have been here before but Gosport & Fareham BC's definitely not encouraging MH's well certainly not in the seafront areas, most car parks have height restricting barriers and those that dont have large signs saying "NO OVERNIGHT Human HABITATION".

Have to say though, MH's def on the increase, and this could be a cause of concern going foreward for those who own a MH and those that dont.

Spent the month of September on a site in Devon, lovely time, but did notice that lots of town car parks in Devon and Cornwall said no MH's e.g. Tavistock main town car park, and some that did welcome MH's were charging double the normal motor vehicle charge.

As somebody has said, in a lot of cases it is the few that spoil it for the many with their inconsiderate behaviour, we have our usual crop of lockdown illegals at Tichfield Haven claiming they have nowhere to go, what they really mean is nowhere to go which is free, these are mainly people in transit vans with a mattress thrown in the back, although unusually this year we have a transit van with a caravan in tow, looks like a very old swift.

Once again we have that old chestnut, what are they doing for toilet facilities?, public loo's closed. No doubt dumping in the sea

As this pandemic and lockdown continues there will be many more living as best they can in vans of various sizes