barge1914
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I’ve been up to my ears on this one. Back in October CAMpRA prepared a report Cumbrian Coastal Tour for motorhomes. I’ve been in touch with the authorities in Cumbria ever since. I joined a zoom meeting on Friday with Cumbria Tourism, Lake District National Park, Copeland and Allerdale Councils.
They are establishing such a touring route, trying to get council car parks to accept motorhomes overnight, trying to encourage local businesses, pubs, sports clubs, village halls etc. to accommodate motorhomes.
They see this as compatible with the desire to attract motorhome tourists and spread out the problematic over-concentration in the Central Lakes across more parts of Cumbria, and to stimulate growth in the often neglected coastal area. (Except South Lakeland DC who really don’t seem to like us).
I saw today that LDNP are proposing a webinar in a week or two to encourage farmers to set up pop-up campsites this year to help absorb the deluge of campers they are expecting.
Pity so few other areas are being so positive.
Anyway, one reason for posting this here is to say CAMpRA could do with some more active members in North West England as it is one of the most under-represented parts of the country in our membership. Despite it being one of the most receptive areas to what we are trying to achieve. There’s much to do here, but as yet only one person doing it...me...and I don’t even live in the NW (but I did once upon a time).
If you feel you can help please make contact.
We also have proposed touring routes linking Cumbria and Northumbria, and up the West Pennines.
The main object of these tours is not an end in their own right, they give a framework to give councils a raison d’etre for provision of Moho facilities. The Tours being a marketable Tourism product they can see benefits for themselves that they don’t always see when presented with random requests for Aires for what some perceive to be motorised vagrants.
A perhaps hidden agenda is that by concentrating on main areas our quiet remote Wildcamping hidey-holes may get left alone.
They are establishing such a touring route, trying to get council car parks to accept motorhomes overnight, trying to encourage local businesses, pubs, sports clubs, village halls etc. to accommodate motorhomes.
They see this as compatible with the desire to attract motorhome tourists and spread out the problematic over-concentration in the Central Lakes across more parts of Cumbria, and to stimulate growth in the often neglected coastal area. (Except South Lakeland DC who really don’t seem to like us).
I saw today that LDNP are proposing a webinar in a week or two to encourage farmers to set up pop-up campsites this year to help absorb the deluge of campers they are expecting.
Pity so few other areas are being so positive.
Anyway, one reason for posting this here is to say CAMpRA could do with some more active members in North West England as it is one of the most under-represented parts of the country in our membership. Despite it being one of the most receptive areas to what we are trying to achieve. There’s much to do here, but as yet only one person doing it...me...and I don’t even live in the NW (but I did once upon a time).
If you feel you can help please make contact.
We also have proposed touring routes linking Cumbria and Northumbria, and up the West Pennines.
The main object of these tours is not an end in their own right, they give a framework to give councils a raison d’etre for provision of Moho facilities. The Tours being a marketable Tourism product they can see benefits for themselves that they don’t always see when presented with random requests for Aires for what some perceive to be motorised vagrants.
A perhaps hidden agenda is that by concentrating on main areas our quiet remote Wildcamping hidey-holes may get left alone.