Mablethorpe ( Lincs ) Now MH Friendly

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Mablethorpe ( Lincs ) NOT MH Friendly

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I have done a search and cannot find anything about it ..

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Mablethorpe now has MH Parking bays at the bus station. They have restricted the bus parking to 3 bays .. Added SIX MH Parking Bays and TWO Disabled MH Parking Bays. Toilets nearby all for £3 for 24 Hours .. No restrictions on sleeping or length of time you stay ..

Well done Mablethorpe .. :D

If you do stop over Dave's is worth a visit for Breakfast. Just walk down towards the town and it's on the main road.

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Have they lifted the No Overnight sleeping then?, have used the bays During the day many times but didn't think you could sleep or cook in the van
 
I stood in front of the machine for 5 minutes reading everything. There was nothing to say you could not sleep overnight or cook in your MH. I think someone has come to there senses at long last. The waitress in Dave's Cafe also said they had removed some of the parking restrictions on the roads. So perhaps they have at long last realised that people who have MH's spend money WHERE THEY CAN PARK.

The machine ticket just gives you a ticket for the same time you enter your money but 24 hours later. You do have to put your registration number in. Normally the first thing you see on the machine is NO OVERNIGHT Sleeping. Nothing on this one.
 
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That's Brilliant news, & Thanks for Posting.
I'm on my phone at moment, So can I ask if anyone has got the Co ordinance for this Car Park for the Sat nav, As am heading to Milton Keynes Probably Tomorrow then on to Skegness over the 1st weeks of January so will divert and check it out !.
 
QFour said:
I have done a search and cannot find anything about it ..

BUT

Mablethorpe now has MH Parking bays at the bus station. They have restricted the bus parking to 3 bays .. Added SIX MH Parking Bays and TWO Disabled MH Parking Bays. Toilets nearby all for £3 for 24 Hours .. No restrictions on sleeping or length of time you stay ..

Well done Mablethorpe .. :D

If you do stop over Dave's is worth a visit for Breakfast. Just walk down towards the town and it's on the main road.

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Ment to add this to my last post sorry Ooops.
 
The Council's website, states: Overnight occupation of vehicles is not permitted. It sounds like they are moving forward but the overnight rule needs clarifying.
 
They must of updated the signs then, if deff used to say it on the one by the entrance, im sure the extra trade would help some of the local businesses. Maybe they will do this is some of there carparks in Skegness
 
Weston said:
The Council's website, states: Overnight occupation of vehicles is not permitted. It sounds like they are moving forward but the overnight rule needs clarifying.
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From my experience the website is more likely to be correct than the pay and display machine or the car park signs.

Almost invariably pay and display car parks are introduced by councils with standard conditions that prohibit, using various wording, overnight occupancy.
 
What's on the website has no relevance here. Nor is it relevant if the off-street parking order has overnight occupation restrictions. What is important is the information the council displays to the parking public on its signs.
 
Maybe they have done a uturn then because it defiantly used to state no sleeping or cooking in the pay and display meter
 
I am normally very careful where we park and always read the signs so if it had said no overnight sleeping I would have seen it. Should have taken a picture ..

Had a look at google earth and they have certainly altered everything. The car park has a row of bollards down it now which split the MH / Bus / Disabled part from the rest. Entrance is through where there used to be a No Entry sign.

Map coordinates are .. 53.3397603 , 0.2604875

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Sounds like they have made changes then, there never used to be any bollards that I can remember, hopefully they will do this in a few more areas
 
QFour said:
I am normally very careful where we park and always read the signs so if it had said no overnight sleeping I would have seen it. Should have taken a picture ..

Had a look at google earth and they have certainly altered everything. The car park has a row of bollards down it now which split the MH / Bus / Disabled part from the rest. Entrance is through where there used to be a No Entry sign.

Map coordinates are .. 53.3397603 , 0.2604875

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Brilliant,,Thanks for that.
 
my cousin runs a bakery 'the nutty baker' in victoria st about 150 yds from the seacroft rd car park we've overnighted there twice in the last two years, once for a family wedding & again for a birthday meal no problems either occasion,
 
I have sent an email

As follows

To...carparks@e-lindsey.gov.uk

Dear Sir,

I have a motorhome.

1) It seems clear that I can park here for 24hrs

2) It is not clear that we could sleep overnight in the vehicle

3) is cooking (in the vehicle) permitted

Clearly this is not a campsite and so no equipment will be outside the vehicle and no awning used

I will post their reply
 
We must all do what we think is best and I thank you for sending that email to East Lindsey council. We should accept at face value their provision of parking spaces for us. We should just use these spaces and not worry them to make public concessions. It invites them to lose face in view of their previous opposition to motorhomes. Councils guard carefully their decision making and don't like to be seen to be changing their minds. They see that as a weakness when we might see it as a strength.

If this is indeed a concession, then ...

Throughout 2014/15 and perhaps a little of 2016 there were continuous efforts to get East Lindsey to tone down their ant-motorhome stance in a number of places - chief among them their decision to impose height barriers on car parks in Skegness but also on car parks throughout the Lincolnshire County Council area - Huttoft for example. The council justified height barriers as non-descriminatory because, they said, there is sufficient street parking for motorhomes. John Thompson's stance on anti-discrimination was very effective Made To Feel Like Outcasts | Page 2 | MotorhomeFun | The Best Motorhome Club in the World (probably) in making the two councils listen. Both councils became very defensive about their discrimination policy and the chief executive was quick to distance his council from one councillor's public statement that motorhomers are a bunch of freeloaders. There were protests in other parts of Lincolnshire - Huttoft I've already mentioned and protests by the gypsy community. I had my own little bit to do too.

If this is indeed a concession then it proves the need to stand up to councils and question them when they make bad decisions
 
jagmanx said:
As follows

To...carparks@e-lindsey.gov.uk

Dear Sir,

I have a motorhome.

1) It seems clear that I can park here for 24hrs

2) It is not clear that we could sleep overnight in the vehicle

3) is cooking (in the vehicle) permitted

Clearly this is not a campsite and so no equipment will be outside the vehicle and no awning used

I will post their reply
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I get the impression in other places that some councils have adopted a pragmatic approach to MH parking . If asked officially [as above] they are going to answer officially i.e. NO . In this instance it appears they are allowing us to park without actually saying so . Why stir things up ?
p.s. all of these threads should be on members only forum
 
alcam said:
I get the impression in other places that some councils have adopted a pragmatic approach to MH parking . If asked officially [as above] they are going to answer officially i.e. NO . In this instance it appears they are allowing us to park without actually saying so . Why stir things up ?
p.s. all of these threads should be on members only forum
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I understand what you say !
We shall see.

On the basis of your solution we could get a penalty notice which could not be challenged (successfully).

If they say NO ! I will go elsewhere.... as will others
 
jagmanx said:
I understand what you say !
We shall see.

On the basis of your solution we could get a penalty notice which could not be challenged (successfully).

If they say NO ! I will go elsewhere.... as will others
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Not true.

A challenge would be successful. What is not forbidden is allowed. We can only know what is forbidden if there is a sign at the car park saying so. Here, it seems, there is no sign forbidding overnight parking. Therefore, allowed.
 
I know I am being picky but

maureenandtom said:
Not true.

A challenge would be successful. What is not forbidden is allowed. We can only know what is forbidden if there is a sign at the car park saying so. Here, it seems, there is no sign forbidding overnight parking. Therefore, allowed.
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I do not accept your "not True" certainly not "not likely" Maybe a challenge would be successful BUT.. too much aggravation.
Personally I will not stay there unless I get a suitable response.
The same goes for other situations.
Given our lifestyle and my philosophy I avoid all such complications !

In effect .. "If I am not welcome.. I will not use...and spend"

Each to their own ..Just my strategy
 
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