Life's a Beach

1984ReturnsForReal_2

http://uk.travel.yahoo.com/p-promo-3360475

I can't even afford a quid.

PasturesNew

A fabulous beach near me went for sale in about 2004 and they got £12,000 for it. If I'd have known it might have gone for so little I'd have been interested in buying it .... however ..... if I'd known who the competition were I'd have not bothered. It was bought by the people who 'lived' in the hamlet - and they're big houses/2nd homes, so they'd have held on no matter what the price rose to.

It's a lovely beach. Only provisos on owning it were that it could never be built on and you couldn't stop people going onto it. I thought maybe some restrictions might have been able to put in place, like: No shouting, no radios, no playing footy, no noise. So it was a quiet beach, a haven where people could come and enjoy the sound of the ocean, without idiots shouting at each other and playing footy all over the place.

StevieJ

You would be hacked off if you were in one of those houses and about to lose access to that beach.

1984ReturnsForReal_2

I see a car park.........

£5 a day

PasturesNew

Car park won't be part of the beach deal. Car park will be owned by the Council, or the caravan park, or the National Trust.

1984ReturnsForReal_2

PasturesNew wrote: »

Car park won't be part of the beach deal. Car park will be owned by the Council, or the caravan park, or the National Trust.

You could dig a little around the carpark & make it unstable

Park on the beach £10 per day.

PasturesNew

1984ReturnsForReal wrote: »

You could dig a little around the carpark & make it unstable

Park on the beach £10 per day.

The cliffs round there are really unstable, they just fall away, huge chunks of it, all the time.

You'd need some matting on the beach to stop cars sinking into it too.

Could set up a kiosk and sell ice creams, buckets, spades and tat. There's enough business (if the weather's good) for about 8 weeks of that/year.

Right at the edge, there might be the opportunity for a few beach huts.... have to see the tide heights though, and check restrictions.

Could also charge a fee for stuff like launching jetskis.

Rent it out as a film location.

Loughton_Monkey

Nice little cocktail bar. Lap Dancing annex. Beach huts for rent (by the hour). Residents would love it! Let's go!

1984ReturnsForReal_2

PasturesNew wrote: »

The cliffs round there are really unstable, they just fall away, huge chunks of it, all the time.

You'd need some matting on the beach to stop cars sinking into it too.

Could set up a kiosk and sell ice creams, buckets, spades and tat. There's enough business (if the weather's good) for about 8 weeks of that/year.

Right at the edge, there might be the opportunity for a few beach huts.... have to see the tide heights though, and check restrictions.

Could also charge a fee for stuff like launching jetskis.

Rent it out as a film location.

I was in the bath this morning thinking about this one.

A little area (enough for 50 cars or so) with some matting & a membrane underneath at a shallow level to stop oil contamination.

Rocks from the collapsed old council car park forming the boundries so little Johnie & Tavish can play without worry of getting run over.

Job done.

mystic_trev

Loughton_Monkey wrote: »

Nice little cocktail bar. Lap Dancing annex. Beach huts for rent (by the hour). Residents would love it! Let's go!

Or maybe Adult theme it

You could split it up for topless, nudist and doggers corner :rotfl:

Generali

StevieJ wrote: »

You would be hacked off if you were in one of those houses and about to lose access to that beach.

I think that you can't stop people from using beaches as everyone in the UK has rights to stuff like bait digging and some fishing rights.

Also, presumably at least, beaches aren't exempt from the 'right to roam'.

I think that all beaches have been free for everyone to use for a very long time. There are probably some that are owned that the landowner makes difficult to get to but that's a different matter.