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Aberdeenshire Council tackle overnight motorhome camping.

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But Mr Armitage said that while it was not offence to park overnight on a public road, it was against the law to encamp or sleep in the vehicle overnight.

He also stressed there was no legal legislation for the council to put up signage to tackle that particular issue.



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However, fire chiefs advised that if the council was to promote a car park as an overnight stop for motorhomes, they would consider it to be a campsite and would require necessary compliance.

Talk about putting up barriers, in the figuritive sense, to solving the problem
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All bull, making laws where there are none.
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However, fire chiefs advised that if the council was to promote a car park as an overnight stop for motorhomes, they would consider it to be a campsite and would require necessary compliance.

Talk about putting up barriers, in the figuritive sense, to solving the problem


So, what do the same fire chiefs think about overnight truck parking at truck stops where the driver hits the sack in his sleeper cab :-/ :P

This whole thing about no overnight sleeping in vehicles is such a load of b@ll@cks
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Re: Aberdeenshire Council tackle overnight motorhome camping.

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This whole thing about no overnight sleeping in vehicles is such a load of b@ll@cks



Many Cornwall Councillors have interests in campsites
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I definitely need to add a "BANGING HEAD OF BRICK WALL" emoji!

So shortsighted, so "in it for their own gain" - maybe we should mount a crowd fund to take a campsite owner to court for forcing us to go to their site? :)
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This isn’t just campsite owners.

Stonehaven is just 15 mins up the road from me and the main issue is nose to tail MH parked all along the beachfront. It looks like crap and the property and business owners looking out at it are rightly, imo, aggrieved.
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If a proper parking area was provided there wouldn't be a problem in Stonehaven or elsewhere like that
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This isn’t just campsite owners.

Stonehaven is just 15 mins up the road from me and the main issue is nose to tail MH parked all along the beachfront. It looks like crap and the property and business owners looking out at it are rightly, imo, aggrieved.


Have to agree.
Same happened here in Mullaghmore..... parking all along the front.
Saw a motorhome owner tell a local resident who couldn’t get parked to ‘F’ off as she owned the house and not the view and she didn’t own the parking there.
Council put in short car bays and no motorhome parking there now, no laws changed but effectively put a stop to the problem.
Sometimes there is people among us that makes us our own worst enemy...... but afraid those people care nothing about the problems they create.
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If a proper parking area was provided there wouldn't be a problem in Stonehaven or elsewhere like that


Agreed, but parking in the manner described in that article won’t help get there.
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