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Quote: Originally posted by rwhites1 on 04/2/2014

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Wildcamped there 7days 1 day at a campsite getting water,charge battery,empty toilet.I picked up all the litter on the banking at the back of the car terrace that people had left and bottles off the beach.There was guy sleeping in the car with a young girl and a guy in another with no legs they were there all week and possibly longer.
Lincolnshire is off my camping list now always liked hutoft
UK is anti motorhome

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Okay, so "well done" for picking up litter BUT come on!..you've "Wildcamped there 7 days", !?..So don't you realise that YOU(and those doing likewise) were/are seen to  be part of the problem?....

"Off grid" pitching is supposed to be about having the odd night(or two?) and then moving on..Not setting up camp on some carpark and taking a weeks' holiday and/or living there for a week...

(...especially one that was supposedly just set up for fishermen overnighting.....).

Is it really any wonder that there are "anti-motorhome" sentiments about......

But you had pitched up... on a carpark...for a week....of cause it was going to p*ss off the locals!(..and eventually, the "authorities").

Why doesn't anyone  EVER think that this sort of thing is any of their doing....?

Okay, so you and others had your "free week" and now it's got barriers...Great.

Maybe if people hadn't been staying for days/weeks at a time, then people would still be allowed to overnight there now.....

..it seems simple enough....

Hi babygrumplin...

That's interesting what you say about the "travellers"..I suppose I was really meaning/envisaging the "tarmac ya drive,Boss?", of Irish origin, types...

I should imagine that maybe the ones in the "high end motorhomes" would call  themselves "Full-timers" or  "long-termers"(..perhaps renting their house out whilst they "Live the dream"..)?...

I've got absolutely nothing against proper, responsible, discrete "Wild-camping" but as I've said before, pitching up on  coastal car-parks/headlands/beauty spots(sometimes in "herds")and then assuming that just because nobody has told them to clear off, that then means that they've had no impact, is either a) Naive or b)Selfish....

..and it's not just about what rubbish people may or may not leave or the noise they may or may not make etc, it's the visual impact that they have(..and not wishing to sound all "hippy" and for want of  better words,I suppose a psychological/emotional impact  as well..).

People go to these areas for the views, the seascapes,the vast skies, the tranquillity etc...and no matter how slight an impact overnighting-MHers may think they have, people living in rows of large mobile boxes hardly add to the experience....

To those who still see nothing wrong in it...Then I would say, just picture your local beauty spot, your favourite dog walk or the picnic spot that you take your Grandkids to..or any tranquil spot where you  like go to unwind for that matter...

Now...picture it with a load of MHs and converted vans, with people living there for a week+ at a time...

...I bet that picture isn't quite so lovely now, is it..!

Quote: Originally posted by rwhites1 on 06/2/2014

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This guy will sort it.Got rid of signs in highlands of scotland

http://andystrangewayovernightparkingcampaigner.wordpress.com/

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Some of  those campaigners intrigue me...

On the one hand ,it seems that they're more than happy to shout about  barriers or "bans" being "illegal"...because procedures weren't fully adhered to or some or other form hadn't been submitted correctly etc etc..

And yet, as that bloke indicates on his link/website, if needs be,he'll gladly park up against the barrier and in doing so deliberately block the car park entrance, therefore stopping anyone else from using it!...

It's strange how some people pick and choose which "laws" they want to abide with, isn't it.....

Wouldn't it be more productive if they tried to make the business case for these "overnight camping" locations?..and put forward projections(and proof?) of how much revenue it could/does bring into the local shops/cafes etc ?...

(..But of cause, in many cases, despite what some may try to tell us, a good many will spend little, if anything, in the area they are "mild-camping" in..Having brought their own provisions with them, or just stocked up at Tesco/Aldi on-route...)