In the event of..........

[sunnydays]

In the event of us being ousted from our present location, does anyone have any notion of the Councils feeling about designating an area of beach for naturists in particular and the public in general. If there was a 400m stretch to the West of the area we use now, would that be a compromise..........just a thought

[nagumbe]

Portsmouth City Council has no policy on naturists despite our urging them that they should have. In the event that we are ousted from the beach that we currently use we will need to address that. In the meantime we continue to fight for our preferred option.

[hpuk]

I would suggest that would still not suffice, as the company knows that its prospective residents will still be able to see you/us if we accepted a move to the beach adjacent to the current location. They want you/us out of sight of the development which will mean invading the more popular public beach to the West, which I can't see PCC agreeing to.

Has anyone here tried Browndown? I've heard of it but never been.

[nagumbe]

Yes I have been to Browndown. It tends to be quiet with just a few walkers passing by. You should know that the land there, at least down to mean-high water mark, is Ministry of Defence land that does occasionally get used for training exercises. If using it keep your eyes open for landing craft or else the first thing you know is that you'll be stomped on by hairy arsed marines! Seriously though, the exercises are not that frequent and I've never been disturbed.

[uknudist]

I would suggest that would still not suffice, as the company knows that its prospective residents will still be able to see you/us if we accepted a move to the beach adjacent to the current location. They want you/us out of sight of the development which will mean invading the more popular public beach to the West, which I can't see PCC agreeing to.

The point is though, it's not up to QinetiQ (or any future owner of the site).  Eastney Beach is a very popular naturist beach by long-standing tradition and they have to just accept that it will stay that way whether they like it or not.  If the proposed residential development is ever built, any future residents will have to accept it too.  There's no good reason for naturists to stop using the beach, so we're not going to.

I still say that if we do end up with flats there, the developers should wake up to the obvious, and market them as ideal new homes for naturists!  Win-win situation - it would be the biggest naturist community in the UK.  There must be *loads* of people who would just love to live somewhere in the UK that they could walk out of their flat and straight onto the beach without ever putting a stitch of clothing on.  The grass areas between the blocks of flats would become nude sunbathing lawns.  People would downsize and move here after their kids had left home, or retire here.  QinetiQ need to stop causing trouble and have some imagination.