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A new catch-all Tea Shop thread for those miscellaneous new stories that don’t quite fit with parking, crashing into buildings or trapped/prisoners in their homes.
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Hirsute wrote:
Bit of a strange one – van trapped in car park for 2 years. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9qw74djvnjo Doesn’t say how many others were trapped. Couldn’t they use a fork lift ?There are some details of the system used here and here. Looks very impressive (when it works).
Hirsute wrote:
I was thinking after so many weeks they might dismantle enough to get one in. I also wondered about legal action – borderline theft: ‘intention to permanently deprive’ and arguing failing to resolve anything was equivalent to ‘intention’.What, and risk damaging their parking equipment?
I wonder whether they’ll have the gall to try and bill for backdated parking fees as and when they are finally able to get the cars out of there?
Bit of a strange one – van trapped in car park for 2 years. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9qw74djvnjo Doesn’t say how many others were trapped. Couldn’t they use a fork lift ?I’m surprised that they didn’t get the police involved for theft of the van. Maybe the terms and conditions for using the car park state that you relinquish any right to the property left there?
And they probably make all their customers sign an NDA and he’s already in trouble for going to the press 😉
I note that the owners of the facility “declined to comment” and the company which runs and maintains it said they cannot comment as they signed an NDA
Come with me to Brockenhurst,
Come with me to Brockenhurst, New Forest. It has a train station and a bike shop and in the summer season the area attracts visitors, many of whom are happy to brave the local roads for the simple pleasure of cycling. I’m not a great fan of the New Forest for road cycling, mainly because there’s just too many idiot drivers. There’s some decent winter gravel riding east of Brockenhurst, if you like miles of woodland.
Anyway, this all concerns the main shopping street which, you’ve guessed it,is narrow and filled with parked cars. After several years of to-ing and fro-ing, a highways improvement is going to start this month. Drainage repairs, pavement improvements, speed humps.
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parish council – flying in the face of demand
Brockenhurst Parish Council removed the cycle racks in Brookley Road in late May 2023 following damage sustained in a traffic incident. The cycle racks, located outside of Tesco Express, were hit over the Bank holiday weekend and once the damage was reported the racks were taped closed. The tape was subsequently removed by cyclists parking their bikes. Despite continued heavy demand for their use over the Bank holiday period the cycle racks have been removed due to health and safety concerns
.https://brockenhurst.gov.uk/brookley-road-active-travel-scheme/parish council acts suprised about something under discussion for 3 years, tries to bail out when it gets near someone actually doing something (other than removing useful cycle parking) :
In a recent email to Hampshire County Council, the Parish Council highlighted that the implementation plan of which we have just been made aware fails to satisfy important conditions originally agreed upon during extensive consultations over the past three years. The Parish Council has always been committed to working collaboratively with Hampshire County Council to develop a scheme that benefits both parties and the local community
https://brockenhurst.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/PRESS-RELEASE-22nd-March-2025.docx
The County Council’s plans and timescale https://www.hants.gov.uk/transport/transportschemes/atfbrockenhurstimprovements#step-3
Letter: How can councillors ride roughshod over voters in Brockenhurst?
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picture – a peep at the location – the cycle parking is just out of sight on our left, outside Tesco
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