Camper vans in Sandymount car parks are becoming 'a serious hygiene and health issue', residents warn.
David Turner is Chair of the Sandymount and Merrion Road Residents Association."There are car parks along the strand and they're for short-term use," he said."We want to make the area as nice as possible - and it's not just for residents, but it's for visitors alike as well.
"These short-term car parks are now getting filled by caravans and trailers for overnights, multi-nights in quite a few cases. "It's preventing the short-term use for which they're intended, it keeps the visitors out [and] there's nowhere else to park"."Usually the sink and refuse drain water goes out onto the car park, refuse even goes into the bushes, because there are no facilities," he said.
"Not everybody takes it away, and it's attracting rodents from the beach and rock armour areas - it's starting to become a serious hygiene and health issue, which gets worse as the weather gets warmer"."Usually it's sink water, drain water, people won't drive away with that in the sink," he said."Refuse [is] sometimes left in bags and other times not.
"Most are in place, there's bits and cases [that] have been removed, but it's simple maintenance as far as I can see.Main image: File photo of a large camper van parked near the water in August 2017. Picture by: Torbjörn Lagerwall / Alamy Stock Photo
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