The National Trust being cautious for example.
Friday 15 May 2020
From Thursday 21 May we'll open some of our larger car parks in England to visitors who have pre-booked spaces.
On Monday 18 May a booking system will open on our website. Details about which car parks are bookable will appear on property web pages, and we're urging visitors to check online for the latest details and booking instructions before travelling. Members will be able to book a space for free, while non-members will need to pay in advance for their space.
The opening of larger car parks in England comes days after we started opening some of our smaller car parks in line with government advice, so people can access fresh air, open space and nature.
All car parks in Wales and Northern Ireland remain closed after the First Minister in Wales and the Northern Ireland Executive reiterated the 'stay at home' message.
For the moment our pay-for-entry places, including houses and gardens, remain closed. Any reopening will be phased and gradual. In order to maintain social distancing when they reopen, we plan to introduce a pre-booking system. The latest government guidance restricting the public’s use of outdoor ticketed venues means they remain closed for now.
The coronavirus is now part of our landscape and we may as well get on with normal life. Yet there is a sense that caution is not being imposed for any useful effect it might have, but to head off any inclination to ask what was all that about?
From Thursday 21 May we'll open some of our larger car parks in England to visitors who have pre-booked spaces.
On Monday 18 May a booking system will open on our website. Details about which car parks are bookable will appear on property web pages, and we're urging visitors to check online for the latest details and booking instructions before travelling. Members will be able to book a space for free, while non-members will need to pay in advance for their space.
The opening of larger car parks in England comes days after we started opening some of our smaller car parks in line with government advice, so people can access fresh air, open space and nature.
All car parks in Wales and Northern Ireland remain closed after the First Minister in Wales and the Northern Ireland Executive reiterated the 'stay at home' message.
For the moment our pay-for-entry places, including houses and gardens, remain closed. Any reopening will be phased and gradual. In order to maintain social distancing when they reopen, we plan to introduce a pre-booking system. The latest government guidance restricting the public’s use of outdoor ticketed venues means they remain closed for now.
The coronavirus is now part of our landscape and we may as well get on with normal life. Yet there is a sense that caution is not being imposed for any useful effect it might have, but to head off any inclination to ask what was all that about?
7 comments:
Before they issued this announcement, a brochure from the NT thumped through the letterbox to tell me of all the great things I could enjoy at the NT this summer! What a bunch of useless chancers! They couldn't even be arsed to open carparks
Forestry England charge £13.00 a day at the Pinetum a few miles from here. It's a gorgeous walk and area for recreation.
Monstrous extra charges now, and we just don't go there any more! They get subsidies, wages etc.; all paid from taxes, so sod them!
Used to be a great place at around £30.00 a year season ticket. Not any more.
The NT used to be a worthy organisation saving beautiful things and places for posterity, but now has morphed into a bloated woke corporation which peddles a version of what it is to be a vaguely left of centre middle class bell end. The shops are full of Beatrix Potter oven gloves, and their publications full of nonsense about the oppression of women and the usual favoured minorities.
They probably drew up voluminous car-parking strategies to justify their enormous salaries and to show how caring and nice they are.
Well said, Sam
I think what we are beginning to see is a tactical retreat, and a very expensive one.
Not inclined to join the mob on the road though - tailbacks to London.
Graeme - they could at least have opened car parks for members and anyone who can pay by contactless card. Shouldn't be difficult.
Scrobs - £13.00 a day sounds ludicrous to me. I wouldn't pay it.
Sam - yes the shops are poor, far inferior to what they could be. Not even cheap.
Wiggia - and a retreat which is going too slowly. Apart from teachers people just want to get on with their lives.
James - no problems round here but main roads are much busier now.
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