more bad news

i spoke with a fellow motorhomer sunday he knows people whom use the shingle bank and some locals. his opinion is to the feaces deposited on the beach is this ' the motorhomers he knows clear up after their dogs, some of the locals he knows of don't and this is where in his opinion the mistaken idea that motorhomers are dumping the contents of their cassettes comes from' he also is of the opinion that most of the 'locals' that are complaining are people who own second homes there and in that case not genuinely local residents. in my opinion the money this local community stands to lose may mean that some of the amenities even the genuine locals rely upon may suffer to the point of aldeburgh becoming a bit of a ghost town, but if that is what aldeburgh wants then let them have it ( i don't think it is)
 
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Not sure if the emptying of chemical toilets is a fact or fiction to add sway to the banning. How can you spoil a view in the dark? QUOTE]

No doubt it mixes well with the diesel and 2 stroke muck that I've seen from the Yotties at the back of the sea wall.
But I think that we may be missing the point here. If we find a place and then publicise it on this forum is there not a danger that history will repeat itself again?
How many times have you looked at a place on this forum and thought that it would be a nice place to try? When you have got there, you find that there are now "No parking, No over-nighting, no spitting" etc
There has been a recent post about North Devon. It is possible to Wild there but I'm not sure that I would post the locations on here.
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wildman said:
Not sure if the emptying of chemical toilets is a fact or fiction to add sway to the banning. How can you spoil a view in the dark? QUOTE]

No doubt it mixes well with the diesel and 2 stroke muck that I've seen from the Yotties at the back of the sea wall.
But I think that we may be missing the point here. If we find a place and then publicise it on this forum is there not a danger that history will repeat itself again?
How many times have you looked at a place on this forum and thought that it would be a nice place to try? When you have got there, you find that there are now "No parking, No over-nighting, no spitting" etc
There has been a recent post about North Devon. It is possible to Wild there but I'm not sure that I would post the locations on here.
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Good point,Balloo, just look at the number of guests on the site at any given time and it makes you wonder who's watching you:rolleyes:.
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I am not being paranoid about this but as i have already stated I would not "post" some of my camping places.
If, say, a regular contributer were to PM me then I might look through my old lists to see what I could find for them.
What is a shame is that this statement defeats the whole point of this website.
 
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Inresting veiws,it is a shame we could be losing another spot.Lets face it, we seem to be not welcome in this country in most areas.Have wrote to my council several times, but no reply and i no others have tried to.Very rare you get anything for nothing in this country.It seems what ever you do ,some one some were will moan about it,they need to get a life and stop moaning ,about those that have and are enjoying them selves.Then they wonder why most people go abroad and spend there money.WILL THEY EVER LEARN.
 
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Aldeburgh Town Council have now replied saying it's nothing to with them, but is a decision being made by Suffolk Coastal District Council - I've emailed them!!

We only found this spot due to the unselfish act of others advertising it on here!! However I do understand where others are coming from in saying they wish to keep good spots to themselves. But out of the 30 -40 vans at Aldeburgh I wonder how many ever found it like I did via here???

Could this be the end of this website? Or at least the end of it growing any more??? I hope not!!
 
Nosha said:
Aldeburgh Town Council have now replied saying it's nothing to with them, but is a decision being made by Suffolk Coastal District Council - I've emailed them!!

We only found this spot ----. But out of the 30 -40 vans at Aldeburgh I wonder how many ever found it like I did via here???

Could this be the end of this website? Or at least the end of it growing any more??? I hope not!!
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my bold - And how many of us have bothered to also email them? Thanks Nosha - if you post their email perhaps some more of our lot will do the same?

We only found this spot etc - It would interesting to know how many "hits" this site gets per day. I suspect that an awful lot of people use it as a resource and never contribute anything.

btw - I found Aldeburgh using MemoryMap :D
 
Well Baloo' & others if you 'Google' Suffolk Coastal District Council you'll find every means of badgering them.

Just got back from another weekend there along with 30 others, still no signs or barriers YET! I & another member leafleted the other 30 vans that had someone inside, most knew of the impending situation, in fact the local fish & chip shop were supporting the view that motorhomes = income! Most motorhomers now seem to drop into the conversation when buying anything in Aldebergh that "We're staying in a motorhome up on the sea wall"

So I hope the local council will take notice, we can but hope. The more we save by 'wilding' the more we can spend in pubs and shops!!

The other thing that DOES get noticed by the locals is generators running all day (A caravaner) and keeping it neat and tidy - today a converted ambulance pulled up (we all have to start somewhere) but then stood a shopping trolley full of kit, a box and washing up bowls outside his van making it look like a pikie encampment - shame when it's in an 'Area of outstanding natural beauty' which DOES annoy the local dog walkers and snotty yachties!
 
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Nosha said:
The other thing that DOES get noticed by the locals is generators running all day (A caravaner) and keeping it neat and tidy - today a converted ambulance pulled up (we all have to start somewhere) but then stood a shopping trolley full of kit, a box and washing up bowls outside his van making it look like a pikie encampment - shame when it's in an 'Area of outstanding natural beauty' which DOES annoy the local dog walkers and snotty yachties!
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We spent last night there (fantastic storm!) and matey with the trolley was still there.. at the beginning of the slope up to the sea wall itself. Each to their own, but there's been a few there recently that have made us think it would come to an end soon.. and is such a shame.

Sad thing is i'm more than certain it will attract more plastic covered little corsa type boy racers, along with the 4x4s that thunder up and down there as a place to go at night if there's nobody there.

Caravans were becomming more regular and it was only a matter of time before someone left one unhitched and drove off. Generators clearly don't help either.

Well, suppose there will be more room for those throwing their chip wrappers and kitchen towels outta their cars during the day... but a gaping great hole for us to find somewhere so awsome and so local. My 6 year old was so upset when we found out last night.. still we've managed to enjoy it for as long as it lasted :)

Added to this, anyone else notice the pay n display carpark just before the shingle road, with the toilets, has now had motorhomes covered in the permissible vehicles and now there is a sticker with motorhomes (or motorcaravans) in the 'bog off you cant park here!' section!!
so now we can't even park there?? I shall try parking in the car park one day.. i'm only ickle.. and see what happens!!

My van's just an old'ish bay camper. Probably not the prettiest sight for the locals, and the dog walkers but as most "wilders" that visit we always spend (too much!) whilst there.. to the point that we nearly know the fat face staff by name!! We never leave any mess.. and in fact have picked up others rubbish so those about us haven't assumed it to be ours!! Thinking about it most of our rubbish comes home to be recycled rather than finding its way to the Aldeburgh bin!

Anyways, there was no sign of any signs when we left.. lets hope they get blown down if they ever manage to put them up!
What will the fishermen do? I'm very veggie.. but think i might buy a rod.. can i catch much with sweetcorn in the north sea?? ;-)


Happy days :-(
 
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Its realy quite simple take a fishing rod a your tackle of course, go fishing at night and sleep through the day.:eek:
 
Klop, I do hope you weren't one of the bays' that were attended to by the AA on Sunday? First a yellow was started after a two to the boat yard section, then 10mins later a blue one was towed away!!

To anyone thinking of buying such a vehicle, I will add there was an even better yellow one, a green one and a cream & maroon one that I can remember; so there were plenty that did go home under their own steam!
 
Oh no, poor things! none of the above were us, we only stayed the one night.. Tuesday night (just in time for the storm!)

We have an old VW bay, were the others old VWs? My son would have been most excited to have seen some others as there's not normally anything pre 90s there.
Lovely Red & White merc sometimes :)

We made it back, on our own steam.. but do carry emergency rations in readyness for the occasional AA meetin ;-)


Perhaps if they limited staying to just one night? The Fort car park has a limit stay of 18 hours with no return within 4 hours. I appreciate it's not perfect.. but i'd rather the opportunity to stay one night (or maybe two!) with the knowledge that we have to move on the following day. 18 hours seems a tad short.. perhaps 24 hours could work though?
 
This story has now been featured on Anglia TV. See:- www.itv.com/anglia then search for Aldeburgh, it's the first story that comes up. It seems it's due to us damaging the sea wall - a bloody great concrete edging block along the side that we park on, and causing potholes in the gravel by us turning round, obviously the dozen or so kids that fly up and down every night NEVER wheel spin and DON'T turn round!!

Anyway the report says the ban will start at the end of June!

So where shall we go and spend our money now... Southwold perhaps? Certainly NOT Aldeburgh!:mad:
 
End of june at Aldeburgh

Well its the end of june today has the barbed wire and watch towers gone up yet gone up? would have loved to have gone up this coming weekend:( this is a sad situation going on all over the country with the second home brigade taking over nice villages, Dorset where we come from has suffered badly and house prices have gone thro the roof because of Londoners buying up everything in sight!
 
We were there the first week of July and no barbed wire yet!

Mind you the word must be out as we were one of only 5 vans on the wall, normally I would expect to see 10 - 20 at this time of year; so as there's still some uncertainty as to who owns the gravel road and the reduced numbers maybe... just maybe this will go away for a while (I hope!).
 
Yes the signs are now up (Sept 7th 08) as well as signs banning motorhomes (only) from the sea wall there are also signs banning ANY overnight parking along the side of the sea bank op' the old boat yard!

There was only one VW camper chancing it on the wall, I for one will now be voting with my feet... or should that be wheels? If they don't want us, I don't want to spend my money there!!
 
alde

nosha how about going of in a boat all night,just shut the curtains lock the doors and be quite,
 
Very true John, others have suggested the same around Poole where you can park all night for 60p but 'No overnight camping'... I still don't know the difference between an empty van at 60p and a van with someone sleeping in it????

No doubt you will be okay at Alde' if you've not fitted windows to your van, as there are NO 'no van' signs just 'No motorhomes' so you can be a night fisherman!

Good luck, like I said you CAN park & sleep down by the sailing club carpark, but move after 17hrs!!
 
where's the actual article in the newspaper that these comments are about?
thanks
 
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