VOLUNTEERS WANTED

 

Our Family Fun, Safety Day will soon be here and we are looking for people to volunteer to help us on the day.

If you would be interested in helping, even if only for an hour or two, please contact us on cranfield_cpra@yahoo.co.uk , on 07050375342 or on our web enquiry section leaving your name, contact number, how long you can attend and what time you can be there at.

 

Although our day starts at 10am, there will be alot of other items that will need sorting on the Friday or early on the Saturday morning, so even if you cannot help us during the event, you may be able to help us get set up.

 

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Open Day at Kilkeel Lifeboat Station

 

For more details goto Calendar

 

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"Big May Day Beach Sponsored Walk"

Cheques Presented

 

Check it out in News section

 

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Tip of the Month

 

Our New Section will bring you help on how to make life easier.

 

"Unplug all plugs that you are not using, your TV, your Digi Box and especially any mobile phone chargers."

 

Unplugging all these items will help reduce your electricity bill.

 

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High Tide Times over the next Couple of Weeks

 

 

Saturday 20th June

09:33

Saturday 27th June

15:43

Sunday 21st June

10:32

Sunday 28th June

16:33

 

 

 

 

 

 

Or check out the rest of the weeks tides @ EasyTide

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Join the CCPRA today as an 'Associate Member'.

Membership is now available for caravaners' from any site in Northern Ireland.

  Click HERE and download an application form today. Membership is only £5 per year.

Get our 'News Letter' emailed to you and find out how to set up an Association on your site.

 

 

 

 

DETERMINED CARAVAN OWNERS SUPPORT McCALLISTER BILL

 

 

Cranfield Caravan Park Residents’ Association, the caravan owners’ organisation formed to fight for improved consumer rights legislation in N.I., recently hosted a public meeting in Tandragee Golf Club.

Caravanners’ from all over N.I. were welcomed by the CCPRA Vice-Chairman Norman McBride who invited South Down UUP MLA John McCallister and his assistant Annette Holden to discuss their plans to introduce legislation as a Private Members' Bill, to the N.I. Assembly, which will provide improved legal protection for persons who own caravans and mobile homes.

 

John McCallister in his address thanked the CCPRA for the invitation to meet and discuss the issues with caravan owners and also congratulated the CCPRA on its’ hard work not only on behalf of Cranfield caravan owners but also throughout Northern Ireland.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"The law on caravans has not been updated in NI since 1963, in which no provisions were set aside for caravan owners and permanent residents in caravans. Unlike mainland UK where the Mobile Homes Act 1983 extended rights throughout the rest of the UK, but it excludes N.I." said Mr. McCallister.

 

"At present I have completed a consultation process which informed interested parties of the proposed legislation. This Bill will redefine the definition of caravan to include mobile homes and park homes and afford protection to owners who rent their pitch from a caravan park operator." Mr. McCallister affirmed.

 

After a lively question and answer session with many caravan owners describing potential and current difficulties including instances were caravanners’ have to purchase most of their goods and services through the site owner and in another instance caravanners forced to upgrade their caravans after a certain time, or leave the site, and can only sell the caravan back to the owner and not at a competitive rate, were very contentious issues that would require further research, advice and debate.

 

Caravan owners also expressed their thanks to Mr. McCallister for his hard work and support and urged him to continue with the fight for fair rights for Caravan Owners. They also committed to spread the word amongst fellow caravanners’ to lobby their MLA’s on these important issues and to demonstrate that there is a massive ground swell of support for new legislation.

 

Danny Kennedy UUP MLA and fellow caravanner was also on hand to discuss issues to be addressed by Newry and Mourne District Council in relation to wooden boxes beside caravans. Confusion amongst caravanners stemmed from the differences between each District Council in the interpretation of the maximum permitted size and timescale for implementing the new regulations. Newry and Mourne District Council have extended the deadline for the removal of all wooden boxes to the end of the 2009 season.

 

 

CCPRA Vice-Chairman Norman McBride thanked John McCallister, Annette Holden and Danny Kennedy for attending and concluded the meeting stating “For generations caravan owners’ in N.I. have been subjected to grossly unfair practices by the holiday caravan park industry which has imposed tremendous hardship on families. There has never been a better time than now to significantly level the playing field with the introduction of McCallister’s private members bill and I strongly commend that everyone spreads the word of the CCPRA, our website, John McCallister’s website and motivate all caravanners behind this initiative.” Key issues can be viewed in documents or www.johnmccallister.org

  

Furthermore Norman announced that membership of the CCPRA was now available to Caravan owners who do not have a caravan pitch at Cranfield Caravan Park. All caravanners’ are now welcome to join as ‘Associate members’ and receive our email Newsletters and advice on how to form their own residents associations.

 

To contact us please email us at

 

cranfield_cpra@yahoo.co.uk

 

or go to the enquiry section.

 

 

 

 

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