‘Our town is a toilet,’ say locals fed up with tourists in camper vans dumping waste and ‘ruining’ beauty spot | 80N4U8G | 2024-02-23 12:08:01
'Our town is a toilet,' say locals fed up with tourists in camper vans dumping waste and 'ruining' beauty spot | 80N4U8G | 2024-02-23 12:08:01
The chemical toilets are being emptied in an space of excellent
LOCALS have described their house being like a rest room, as human waste is dumped by holidaymakers.
The chemical toilets are being emptied in an space of excellent natural beauty and a haven for wildlife utilized by motorhomes and campervans in Norfolk.
The smell is called the 'Salthouse stink' because the toilets are emptied on to a grass verge along the street which runs by way of marshes from Salthouse village to the seashore.
Villagers dwelling close by at the moment are demanding the council go additional than its plan to ban motorhomes and camper vans from the seashore street.
Locals need the ban to additionally cowl caravans, which even have chemical bogs and have bee staying on the 450m Seashore Street.
Carey Clark, from Salthouse Parish Council, advised the Eastern Daily Press: "The parish council would not wish to see caravans on Seashore Street both.& Nevertheless, this hasn't been such a problem as camper vans or motor houses.
"There was one occasion last yr where there was a caravan on the street for some weeks, and we wouldn't need to see that repeated this summer time."
The Salthouse Marshes are a 160-acre nature reserve that may be a grazing marsh and has small swimming pools.
Birds akin to snow buntings, little egrets, and barn owls may be discovered there.
One local stated: "It takes a particular type of moron to assume dumping chemical waste into a beauty spot waterway is a good suggestion, self entitled."
Another stated: "Sadly the filthy and entitled habits of some motorhome customers tar all of us with the identical brush.
"I've witnessed loads of it during my travels with my own motorhome, particularly around Scotland, the place the NC500 has turn into notably notorious for clandestine – and typically even blatant – waste-dumping. There's absolutely no excuse."
<!-- End of Brightcove Player --> A 3rd stated: "It's making it more durable for respectable individuals with motorhomes and vans to seek out free in a single day parking it makes me feel sick. What's mistaken with individuals."
The ban proposed by the council would stop motor houses parking on the street between 6.30pm and 8.30pm any day of the week.
A spokesperson for Norfolk County Council stated: "Over the previous yr the variety of motorhomes parking overnight along Seashore Street has grown considerably, with the quantity of automobiles and their impression now creating dangers for street users.
"After considerations have been raised by Salthouse Parish Council, we've spoken with our companions on the Parish and District Councils as well as Norfolk Police and are proposing this TRO as a approach of addressing the difficulty.
"The aim of this Order is to enhance security along Seashore Street and we might welcome the comments from any street customers who're accustomed to the world and could share their views of how a new restriction on overnight ready of motor caravans might influence safety for all street users."
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