Life's a Beach

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Generali wrote: »

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.

Not all beaches are accessible by the public. There was a program on the telly about it a few months back, looking at who owns Britain's beaches.

I know somebody who owns access to a private beach - and there's somebody in this forum who owns their own beach too, as they mentioned it because they were having a fireworks party on it or something the other month.

There's also a long-running battle over a South Cornwall beach, where the developers said "this is private" and tried to stop residents using the beach, but the residents kicked up a huge fuss over that and other details of the planning and flood potential and how the developers were now trying to fit 2-3x as many posh homes onto the development as originally agreed. It's now 6-7 years on and the locals have access to the beach, but the whole area's derelict as the developers still haven't managed to finally agree what they can build, how/where the sea wall will be and where locals can go etc. http://www.carlyonbay.org.uk/news.html

Eight years after the start, the right of way to the beach was formally recognised: http://www.carlyonbaywatch.com/18.html (Feb 2010).

Even if you own a beach, you can only own from the boundary to high water, I think the Queen owns from high water to low water.

The National Trust own a lot.

mostlycheerful

mystic_trev wrote: »

Or maybe Adult theme it

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

Very funny. I like it. A doggers corner, brill. And charge the performers and the voyeurs different rates according to what’s on with a price list and hardcore stuff costs more than lightweight stuff. And have a mobile sex shop and flog them baby oil and sex toys and binoculars and all the rest of it. Tee hee.

“the property does have associated management costs and legal liabilities”

I wonder how much they are? If you have to let the public onto it then it’s probably not fencing unless perhaps you have to fence off some of the cliffs to stop the plebs chucking themselves over. Maybe signage perhaps to warn numpties that they can drown if they go into the sea and such like. And to warn them of sharks and mermaids. And do you have to get public liability insurance so that you’re covered when thickies set fire to themselves with their bonfires and then try to blame you for their own numptyism. Or sue you when they trip over a pebble or go in the sea and get swept miles away. And such like. Yes, it’d be interesting to know what the costs are. If it’s only this side of a grand a year then it might be doable, if, as you suggest, you set up a dogging area and such like.

Conrad

1984ReturnsForReal wrote: »

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.

Not that simple I'm afraid. There will be all manner of processes and rules to get through, insurance to obtain etc.

In any event, the thought of all those twisted chav ankle claims, and many other costs would be a turn off.

1984ReturnsForReal_2

Conrad wrote: »

Not that simple I'm afraid. There will be all manner of processes and rules to get through, insurance to obtain etc.

You would be amazed how long you could get away with a "temporary parking solution".