howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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stembrook car park at 2 p.m. today, there were less than a dozen empty spaces.
looks like people are using their loaf and doing their shopping when it is free to park.
Talking about parking, I drove down past the seafront yesterday evening and saw a bunch of people parked in their campervans with a lit BBQ on the wall of the Gateway Flats and their kids running around on the grass and flowerbeds with a football. I thought those gardens etc were privately maintained?
Guest 645- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Why the council do nothing about these camper vans baffles me. I have been there on Sunday morn as a string vested bloke cleaned his teeth ,rinsed and spat onto the grass . ''
Very pleasant'' I remarked
I think he replied by telling me to have sex and travel.
Come on Collor get your finger out!
Marek
I think therefore I am (not a Tory supporter)
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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nothing will ever happen, the people on the ground floor of the gateway flats have to suffer it all year round.
the residents pay a small fortune for the upkeep of those gardens.
Guest 640- Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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I must have taken tons of pictures of the camper vans down here on the seafront and I wanted to add one to this thread just to show people...but do you think I could find one....no! Grrrr! But of course I wont have long to wait before I can take another one. They will be pouring in from now on til september rolls up.
Maybe the carparkers are having lunch here or there around town. Not many places to shop on sunday this end of town. Well there's the Co-Op I suppose.
Guest 656- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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It is so disrespectful that the camper van people keep on doing this year after year. Anyone in their right mind can see it is not a public park
Yes, Howard, the residents pay a lot of money to keep the gardens etc in good order.
PaulB, or maybe they have gone to Pencester Park's bandstand for an afternoon's entertainment, listening to the melodic sounds of our resident Sunday jazz band! And the band played believe it if you like
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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I am very disappointed that this is allowed to happen; these people abuse the free parking offered to them, so I would suggest that either they pay £10.00 for their overnight stay (useful income for DDC), or are banned altogether.
They bring nothing to the Town or businesses here, they just want free parking and then get an early morning ferry, so no benefit to us whatsoever.
Roger
Guest 683- Registered: 11 Feb 2009
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I no way excuse inconsiderate behaviour but I like the arrival of the motor homes and caravans on the Front. It's a bit like the first swallow of the summer and I can sense the anticipation and excitement as they watch the ferries arriving and departing. The first or last night in England!
Hopefully they will go home and tell their friends what an attractive place Dover is and that maybe it's worth exploring.
What if the kiosks were to stay open and offer refreshments and some of the businesses tout for their trade?
Alternatively we can make it unpleasant or difficult for them and they will broadcast that far and wide instead.
I don't think anyone has a real issue with the caravans and motor homes - of course we should encourage them into town (it is incomprehensible that local businesses don't do more to that end). It is the discourtesy of the ones who place lit BBQs on private walls and gardens and allow their kids to run amok over the private gardens belonging so obviously to the flats who are the issue.
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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Many of them do come into town to eat and drink. I think a small charge for parking overnight would be reasonable but it's not worthwhile for the occupants unless they get something more for it such as an electricity hookup or availability of toilets (same old chestnut). And if we provided brick BBQs every few yards they would not have to use their own in inappropriate places. Provision of BBQ facilities is pretty much universal elsewhere in Europe and all over the US and Canada.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
