Council members call for a spending the night on camper buses in parking garages on an iconic road trout in Scotland after they are tired of anti -social behavior and litter.
The North Coast (NC) 500 is considered one of the world's most beautiful road trips and is a 516 milestone stretch that runs around the coast of North Scotland.
It is a popular place for tourists to make a road trip in a caravan to explore the view over a few days.
Now, however, the Sutherland County Committee of Highland will discuss the ban on camper buses and motorhomes that stay in parking garages.
But there are warnings that the costs of such a prohibition before the council can be more than £ 40,000.
There are two parking garages that can currently organize Campervans for £ 10 per night.
These are in Durness and Golspie, and both are on the NC500 route. Overnight visitors are only allowed to park one night and cannot return no more than 72 hours.
Parking during the day can continue as normal, but overnight stays would be checked by the parking enforcement team of the council.
The NC500 is a 516 mile away that runs around the coast of Noord -Scotland
It is a popular place for tourists who explore the sights in a camper and stay in parking garages. Stock image
Currently the parking costs are £ 100 but reduces £ 50 if paid within the first 14 days.
'Given the impact of an overnight park of camper buses in parking garages that lead to inappropriate waste removal and other antisocial behavior, the Sutherland Area Committee agrees to impose a ban on the entire night camper and camper bush and camper in the municipality in the Graafschap In the Graafschap Sutherland with signposting that is being introduced to lead them to alternative parking options in the area, “says the motion of councilors Richard Gale and Jim McGillivray.
But officers warn that it would have a major financial implication for the council, with extra costs of personnel enforcement, ranging from £ 4100 for overtime with the help of existing enforcement staff – up to £ 41,000 if an extra full -time enforcement officer was required.
There would be one -off costs with regard to signage and marking changes estimated at £ 1,000 and 'no assumption has been made' with regard to loss of income.
'There is the risk of potential additional costs related to traffic operations, but at this stage no quantified assumption was made, based on the consideration, to accommodate a change within the current RTO -related activities and timetables' , says the report.
'These financial estimates are based on a desktop assessment of the costs, if the motion for making progress, there would be a more detailed assessment, including on location on location.
'The proposal would limit the possibility for owners/users of Campermoge to park in two designated parking garages in Sutherland and instead take a lead to stay in a designated caravan/campsite.
'This can have a negative impact on the camper user/owner by possibly increasing the costs for alternative parking.
'The proposal is intended to have a positive impact on the local rural community by limiting the night's overnight stay to designated locations to reduce inappropriate waste removal and other antisocial behavior.
Council members discuss plans to prohibit caravan at night stay in public parking garages. Stock image
“However, there may be an unintended consequence if those moved campers choose to park in Laybys/Wild Camping instead of going to designated locations that can lead to a greater negative effect in rural areas.”
Sutherland -Councilor Hugh Morrison, vice -chairman of the committee, said: 'The community councils in certain areas of Sutherland along the NC500 are very unhappy about the way in which Highland Council dumped these mobile homes in the center of their villages through this overnight schedule, that is only an invitation to pay. There are also no facilities near these parking garages. '
A groundbreaking council project to eradicate through the nocturnal parking by Campervans in the Highlands was launched last year.
The Highland Campervan and Motorhome schedule costs £ 40 and lasts seven days, and is the first of its kind in the UK.
But Highland Council was said in August that they sold 'fewer than 40' passes.
The scheme is voluntary and offers the use of 12 parking garages for the municipality for overnight stays and access to high life facilities for life in life for washing for £ 40 per week – but waste removal is not included.
Conservative MSP Edward Mountain shouted that it was 'demolished' and claimed that it would cost £ 2 million.
“What we should do is encourage the 27 percent of the mobile home users of the North Coast 500 who do not use campsites to go to local campsites and use the facilities that are offered there,” he said.
The council that competes with these companies is madness, “especially as six weeks in the scheme,” they have sold fewer than 40 permits, “he added.
The Council can cost £ 40,000 a ban on parking at night. Stock image
With the council that offers a parking space at night between 10 p.m. and 8 a.m., parking enforcement is only operational between 8 a.m. and 10 p.m.
The NC500 is subject to constant complaints about different motor problems.
One camper rental company previously advised its customers to avoid the NC500 after attacking its vehicles. Two of his campers had thrown eggs and boxes of yogurt over them – and two had also cut tires.
Residents have often complained about congestion and junk left by cars, campervans and campers in the north.
The tensions on the road trip escalated over the years.
In 2018, the police investigated a wave of incidents on the NC500 with attempts to pierce the tires of vehicles. Dakk maps were found on a road near Bettyhill.
The police have regularly carried out activities on the NC500 every year and have dozens of perpetrators, including for speeding violations.
The NC500 is praised by various top travel publications, National Geographic and the American broadcaster CNN as one of the world's largest disks and emphasized in TV programs such as Top Gear.
It is estimated that it is worth more than £ 22 million a year for the local economy.
The circular route of 516 miles, in and out of inverness, is, however, described as both a highway to hell and a road paved with gold – the boost of tourism, but with complaints from residents, not only of too fast driving motorists, reversed, Also from slow moving convoys of cotor houses and long tailbacks from motorcyclists.
