Move to ban wilding in Devon

[barryd]

Its just some fuss kicked up by some parish council but does it reflect the views of many councils across the land? Hopefully not but it just raises more concerns that further clampdowns on wilding are likely no doubt using the new legislation supposedly to deter "travellers" to prevent us parking up and overnighting. They are even citing the pandemic as a reason to ban us, like we are somehow safer and the public are safer if we are herded onto campsites. Two things I want to do. Get a new van and bugger off back to Europe for as long as possible.

Calls for 'wild camping' ban on camper vans and motorhomes

"We do want to welcome visitors, but we want to do it safely.”

www.devonlive.com

 

[jagmanx]

Easy target albeit wrong !
I will simply avoid the likes of Devon.
Unless more paid carparks allow overnighting.

 

[mariesnowgoose]

Dontcha just lurve this septic isle of ours

 

[jagmanx]

Looe is in Cornwall....Tanks !

 

[antiquesam]

We are talking about a parish council asking the government to ban wildcamping. It's a bit like wildcampers asking the government to open up every car park in the country. It has the same chance of success.

 

[peter palance]

Easy target albeit wrong !
I will simply avoid the likes of Devon.
Unless more paid carparks allow overnighting.

dont bo-ther with the council, try the shops. can i put this in your window, and try to park van out side, be ready to mo-vit mov-it, and say. have you got a safe
spot, ok pj,

 

[SimonM]

Dontcha just lurve this septic isle of ours

That’s exactly the correct word - septic.

No small wonder I prefer to be across the water, and I’d love to have a holiday home there, but I’m spoilt for choice where to go.

 

[mariesnowgoose]

That’s exactly the correct word - septic.

No small wonder I prefer to be across the water, and I’d love to have a holiday home there, but I’m spoilt for choice where to go.

So where would you fancy, Simon?

France? Spain? Portugal? Balkans & Eastern Europe? Italy? Greece? Somewhere else?

 

[SimonM]

If I had the money without a doubt Switzerland. Never been to Spain so dunno, I’ve been once for a week to Portugal and that’s nice. I’m not keen on the Balkans or Greece.

Nope, it would simply be France. But whereabouts? Too many choices, but I have a fancy of Dordogne or Haute-Vienne

 

[mariesnowgoose]

If I had the money without a doubt Switzerland. Never been to Spain so dunno, I’ve been once for a week to Portugal and that’s nice. I’m not keen on the Balkans or Greece.

Nope, it would simply be France. But whereabouts? Too many choices, but I have a fancy of Dordogne or Haute-Vienne

The Dordogne is superb, went there in my teens.
You could buy properties very cheaply 3 or 4 decades ago, not so now.

All that land space! That's what really appeals.
This last year with the pandemic and lockdowns really brings into focus what a small, crowded place it is here!

Plus it's a big agricultural country and they are still very much into good food - despite the encroachment of the likes of McDonalds, Coca Cola, KFC etc.
That's a big thumbs up for choosing to live there in my book.

 

[jagmanx]

For somewhere to both live and motorhome for the whole year
YES it would be France for me

 

[Fisherman]

Let’s not get carried away here I am with Sam on this one.
But I read through the article and this part amuses me.

It follows an increasing number of visitors to the parish who are parking up by the side of roads or in ordinary parking spaces and spending the night, or camping for three or four nights or longer.

Never been to the place but I will bet that cars and other road vehicles outnumber us at least 50-1. It’s the usual a hundred cars in a full carpark and no one takes heed of them. But the 5 Motorhomes are causing a problem. And what happens to car parks at night, they empty of cars, so why bother if there are a few road taxed and insured vehicles of any type left. And as for those who spend three nights that’s easily sorted, and they will be in a minority. As others have stated attitudes towards honest hard working mainly retired Motorhome owners in this country from some is disgraceful. I only wish I had the bottle to drive in the continent.

 

[antiquesam]

For somewhere to both live and motorhome for the whole year
YES it would be France for me

It can be as cold in France in winter as it is here. I've spent many a winter night sleeping in the cab of a lorry and getting out in the morning can be an awful shock. Even around Cahors and Toulouse can be not nice.

 

[witzend]

Easy target albeit wrong ! I will simply avoid the likes of Devon. Unless more paid carparks allow overnighting.

Theres carparks that are allowing over nighting but like everywhere else their jumping on the Covid band wagon

The East Devon Car Parking TAFF, when they met on Tuesday, unanimously agreed to ask officers to review the existing camper van and motorhome policy that East Devon District Council have for their off-street car parks, and called to tariffs to rise, potentially to as much as £30 a night.

https://tinyurl.com/ybketc7n

 

[jagmanx]

Yes not all sunny and warm but even so

 

[SimonM]

It can be as cold in France in winter as it is here. I've spent many a winter night sleeping in the cab of a lorry and getting out in the morning can be an awful shock. Even around Cahors and Toulouse can be not nice.

Yes I know, my sister has a large villa near Cannes but she won’t go there in the winter because it’s too cold for her.

 

[mariesnowgoose]

Yes I know, my sister has a large villa near Cannes but she won’t go there in the winter because it’s too cold for her.

I'd rather be stuck in Cannes for the winter than the UK any day, never mind the temperature!

 

[witzend]

For somewhere to both live and motorhome for the whole year YES it would be France for me

We bought a Van 10 yrs ago to decide where to buy in France now 2 vans later and after spending at least 4 mths a year since touring France we arn't much closer to deciding

 

[SimonM]

I'd rather be stuck in Cannes for the winter than the UK any day, never mind the temperature!

Me too, but she won’t leave her horses for any length of time, and her dogs stay home too because although the property is huge, 20 odd acres, it isn’t fenced and her dogs are rehomed hunting dogs and they like to roam.

 

[Polar Bear]

What is stopping us from using the same answer to "move on" as the travelers?