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Fully aware that there is a wealth of information on the web about this but just wondered if anybody on here as got a similar(ish) experience or offer a bit of advice.
We live next to an airfield that is very popular with aircraft spotters due to the nature of the displays that take place a few times a day (any guesses?!).
Currently having some major issues with people parking at the end of our track, and walking through the field to get to the end of the runway to take pictures etc. In all fairness 99% of the time they're not causing any harm but on matter of principle, I don't want them here!
The RAF police are quite keen for them not to be there either and have been most helpful in coming along where possible and moving people on. However, because where they are is not RAF property, they can only advise people to move on and have no direct control.
Is there anything I can do to make it clear that these people shouldn't be where they are, shouldn't park where they do, and if it continues, what can I or can't I do about it?
Thanks :-)
We live next to an airfield that is very popular with aircraft spotters due to the nature of the displays that take place a few times a day (any guesses?!).
Currently having some major issues with people parking at the end of our track, and walking through the field to get to the end of the runway to take pictures etc. In all fairness 99% of the time they're not causing any harm but on matter of principle, I don't want them here!
The RAF police are quite keen for them not to be there either and have been most helpful in coming along where possible and moving people on. However, because where they are is not RAF property, they can only advise people to move on and have no direct control.
Is there anything I can do to make it clear that these people shouldn't be where they are, shouldn't park where they do, and if it continues, what can I or can't I do about it?
Thanks :-)
I could do but most of the time people don't actually park on our track, but on the road (which is fine) and then climb through hedgerows/gaps further along. As well as this there is an entrance gate to the airfield a little further round which is somewhere else they park, and then walk all the way around the outside which brings them onto our (rented) land.
Vaud said:
Oblique idea - how about fake "MOD Property, under surveillance" signs...?
Or just made to look like MOD signs without any MOD mention?
The fence between our field and the airfield is plastered with official secrets act photography forbidden etc etc signs. This doesn't seem to bother them either!Or just made to look like MOD signs without any MOD mention?
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Some really creep scarecrows that move randomly. Maybe one of them could be a clown scarecrow.
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http://blog.atmel.com/2014/10/31/arduino-controls-...
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You mention you rent the land,have you informed the landowner of the issue?
The landowner needs to know to cover themselves against possible claims of a right of way/footpath or even an application as a 'village green'. A 'village green' application may sound daft but people have tried to register buildings and even a beach as a 'village green'
The landowner needs to submit a declaration,every 10 years,to the Council Rights of Way officer stating there are no rights/footpath on the land. This will then stop anybody trying to register a footpath.
As a landowner I have had to contend with both of the above issues,the 'village green' cost in excess of £100k in legal fees to defend
Depressingly there is very little action you can legally take against your 'vistors',I did consider the muck spreader option when some Irish nomads broke through field gates and made themselves at home until I was advised I would end up on an assault charge
Seriously the best method I have found to deter people is to take photos/videos of them stating you are passing them onto the
,some get really 
but leave pretty rapidly and don't come back 
The landowner needs to know to cover themselves against possible claims of a right of way/footpath or even an application as a 'village green'. A 'village green' application may sound daft but people have tried to register buildings and even a beach as a 'village green'
The landowner needs to submit a declaration,every 10 years,to the Council Rights of Way officer stating there are no rights/footpath on the land. This will then stop anybody trying to register a footpath.
As a landowner I have had to contend with both of the above issues,the 'village green' cost in excess of £100k in legal fees to defend
Depressingly there is very little action you can legally take against your 'vistors',I did consider the muck spreader option when some Irish nomads broke through field gates and made themselves at home until I was advised I would end up on an assault charge
Seriously the best method I have found to deter people is to take photos/videos of them stating you are passing them onto the
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