Parking to be created in Ayr/Girvan

[JnJ]

South Ayrshire car parks to be transformed into camper van holiday spots

Bid to boost tourism in the region could be approved.

www.dailyrecord.co.uk

Thought I would share this from news this morning.

 

[Grianan]

That is indeed good news. I work just the other side of the Low Green behind Blackburn Road car park. It’s a bit of a spot for cars meeting up at night and people going from one car to another ...

 

[scotzsue]

Brilliant news, reasonably handy for visiting family. Girvan is one of my favourite uk spots so many happy childhood memories.

 

[Neil S]

Aye you cant beat "Graziano's" chippy down near the seafront , we always go there every time we visit Girvan

 

[tomm]

Its really good to see that more councils like Ayr , EG Hawick , Fife etc, are actively encouraging motorhomes via providing overnight park up spots for motorhomes . There is also a growing number of other motorhome park up initiatives considering or actually already providing park up plus elsan and fresh water facilities .

EG the road to the isles initiative .

Also the plans from Highland council to encourage land owners etc to provide park ups for I think , up to 30 vehicles . Targetting along and around the NC 500 route .

Also Forest and Land Scotland who trialled ,via "Stay the Night " , the opening of 30+ forest sites last year . It was deemed to be very succesful . At the moment the trial has ended , hopefully only until freedom of movement once more comes along . They did close the trial for a very short time last year due to possibly , (more likely probably ) pressures from private businesses , ie commercial campsite owners ( aka part of the vested interest old boy network) . However that closure was very quickly reversed after the apparent intervention of the Scottish Tourism minister . So possibly , just possibly , the vested interest crowd are now getting their cosy positions very much challenged .

From our travels pre lockdown , there did appear to be a lot more private businesses than before ( pubs etc ) opening up to the idea of motorhome stopovers within their properties . So over all it does look good for motorhoming in general .

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[EuroTrotters]

That is indeed good news. I work just the other side of the Low Green behind Blackburn Road car park. It’s a bit of a spot for cars meeting up at night and people going from one car to another ...

That’s a put off

 

[Gaston aires]

An aire In Ayr. Excellent
it looks like they think they might as well earn out of the influx of chuggers.

 

[Mrsambulancekidd]

You beat me to it with this post, it is good news and I hope it encourages other areas when they see money being spent in the local businesses.

 

[glenn2926]

Great news and very forward thinking by the local councils. It would seem the Northern half of our island are much more welcoming of motorhome s than the southern half.

 

[Ivory55]

You beat me to it with this post, it is good news and I hope it encourages other areas when they see money being spent in the local businesses.

It would be interesting to know in a couple of years time if local buisness have had a big increase in customers from the aires.

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