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01-07-05 - Council Issues Notices to Studland Ferry Road Camper Vans
Purbeck District Council and Dorset Police have issued Direction Notices to 20 owners of illegally parked motor homes on the Studland Ferry Road in Studland.
The Notices, issued under section 77 of the Criminal Justice and Public Disorder Act 1994, were issued this morning [Friday, 1 July 2005]. The Notice requires the owners of the vehicles to remove them from the area within a set time frame. Failure to comply is a criminal offence.
Occupants were advised that Police Officers will be visiting the site on the morning of Saturday, 2 July, to check that the vehicles have been moved as directed. Owners of vehicles still residing on the Ferry Road will be reported for prosecution.
Once a Notice is served, an offence is committed if a vehicle re-enters the land within a period of three months.
The action follows months of complaints from local residents and a formal request from the Studland Beach Users Action Group and the Crime and Disorder Partnership to the Council to take firmer action over illegal camping on the road.
The Studland Beach Users Action Group, which represents agencies such as the National Trust, the Coastguard, Bournemouth-Swanage Motor Road and Ferry Company, the Fire Service, Dorset Police and British Naturism, reported threatening and aggressive behaviour towards National Trust and ferry company staff, breaches of fire regulations and health issues such as the lack of toilet facilities.
Glen Harding, Head of Legal and Democratic Services, said: “We’ve taken this action in conjunction with the Police in the interests of nature conservation, public safety, law and order, and the general amenity of the area. If necessary we will repeat this exercise throughout the summer.”
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Dose anyone think it would be better to completetly ban parking along the ferry road during the summer months. I used to cycle along that road a lot in the summer but with cars parked half way across the road on both sides almost making it a single lane road, its just too dangerous now.
Dose anyone think it would be better to completetly ban parking along the ferry road during the summer months. I used to cycle along that road a lot in the summer but with cars parked half way across the road on both sides almost making it a single lane road, its just too dangerous now.
Sorry about the double post ! Swanage wet-string broadband is getting even slower and it didnt show my first post !
the Ferry Co. solved the problem years ago by widening the verges and installing parking meters but the pumpkin heads made them but it back as it was?
As I recall the problem was they surfaced the sides of the road with a gravel of a lurid yellow colour and this ruffled municipal feathers. It looked ghastly. With considerable irony English Nature then used much the same stuff to repair footpaths and bridle ways all over the heath to make good the damage caused by mountain bikers whose activities had produced deep ruts in many places.
Perhaps the answer is to reinstate the old tramways across the heath from Norden and extend some to the beach so use can be made of the park and ride car park.
Keith Roker
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