Ok I have today (26 March 2013) contacted Belvoir Estate and confirmed my discussion given below
As agreed I am confirming our discussion today for future reference.
I have taken soundings and found that there are not enough people interested to make it worthwhile having a formal agreement. About 10 people expressed a strongish interest and my best guess is that in practice that would probably mean around 3 - 4 people actually turning up at any given weekend.
We then discussed the possibility of a more informal arrangement whereby partof the site could be used for bushcrafting at weekends, with an informal arrangement between the main user and the bushcrafters. You are not ruling this out at this stage. For example, you suggested that the only current possibility might be a part of the estate used for archery but unfortunately the archery use is also at weekends.
You will bear our discussion in mind when talking with other users. To help you with that I said:
· we would be happy to discuss any concerns
· I was sure that, based on experience at other sites, we would be able to meet those concerns
· For example the policy of 'leave no trace' could include only having fires above ground (eg 'jerry can fires')
· No special facilities were required eg people could bring in their own water, and no toilets were needed
· Stays were normally a maximum of Friday late afternoon to late morning Monday
· The level of payment for sites of this kind was normally £5 (ish) per person per night
We agreed that it would be ok for me to contact you periodically, both as a reminder and also to see if there were any developments.
I also gave my telephone number in case the Estate needs to contact me.
So now it is just a case of wait and see.................................PS - I was only able to generate paragraph spacings by writing it out in Word first and then copying it into BCUK . I added this PS after pasting into BCUK and the enter key still has no effect WHY O WHY O WHY BBC DOES THIS HAPPEN?????
As agreed I am confirming our discussion today for future reference.
I have taken soundings and found that there are not enough people interested to make it worthwhile having a formal agreement. About 10 people expressed a strongish interest and my best guess is that in practice that would probably mean around 3 - 4 people actually turning up at any given weekend.
We then discussed the possibility of a more informal arrangement whereby partof the site could be used for bushcrafting at weekends, with an informal arrangement between the main user and the bushcrafters. You are not ruling this out at this stage. For example, you suggested that the only current possibility might be a part of the estate used for archery but unfortunately the archery use is also at weekends.
You will bear our discussion in mind when talking with other users. To help you with that I said:
· we would be happy to discuss any concerns
· I was sure that, based on experience at other sites, we would be able to meet those concerns
· For example the policy of 'leave no trace' could include only having fires above ground (eg 'jerry can fires')
· No special facilities were required eg people could bring in their own water, and no toilets were needed
· Stays were normally a maximum of Friday late afternoon to late morning Monday
· The level of payment for sites of this kind was normally £5 (ish) per person per night
We agreed that it would be ok for me to contact you periodically, both as a reminder and also to see if there were any developments.
I also gave my telephone number in case the Estate needs to contact me.
So now it is just a case of wait and see.................................PS - I was only able to generate paragraph spacings by writing it out in Word first and then copying it into BCUK . I added this PS after pasting into BCUK and the enter key still has no effect WHY O WHY O WHY BBC DOES THIS HAPPEN?????
