Cool reception this year for motorhomes

Can the authority not provide locals with free pass certificates to display in their vehicles. We have them in our town although they only apply to certain car parks and on road parking places.

not aware of any such scheme in our area and some dog walking friends have bought an annual pass that covers most car parks, if such a scheme was in place they would know.

agree with CY, what has been introduced does have some detremental affects for the local population, I am lucky in that i can still walk and cycle reasonable distances so no need to drive to the beach, however, our old dog is now struggling with walks and whereas we would consider driving to a beach car park and then walking we now park at a friends house and then walk him, swings and roundabouts,

I would have preferred some sort of half way house, but we could not continue as it was, we were being pushed out by more and more MH's/camper vans, in many cases people call them MH's but they are nothing more than a transit van with a mattress thrown in the back, obviously, because beach side parking was free, and most of the car parks allowed a 48-72hrs stay depending on the time of year. 

It will be interesting to see how much revenue the council take in from introducing parking fee's, substantial I would have thought even though the area is normally quite quiet during the winter months, although i have seen queues at the ice cream shop in December.

There was parking in the most improbable spots at the bottom of Castle Street this morning rather than pay for the car park. Don't know if it was visitors or disgruntled locals. By its very nature a lot of the houses down there don't have off street parking.

I think it’s happening all over to be honest, wherever visitors of one sort or another come to do something, and need to park up. We live close to our big park, and the town’s Rugby Club, and have had decades of silly parking to contend with. The park issue has been mostly solved as they have made what used to be tennis courts into a very large car park, and moved the tennis courts further into the park. But the Rugby Club (and they have been a Premier team) has no car park, so on match days it can be bedlam. All but our little street is now double yellow lines, which has pushed things a bit further out. Council have tried to get local residents to sign up to accept permit parking a few times, but as they want to charge, no one is happy with this, not as you only get one permit and everyone on our little street has at least two vehicles.

Overnighting in big outfits is even worse of course, brings a lot more issues. Some places have it well sorted, shining example for us is Kircudbright, but others just end up penalising everyone, including local folks.