[jmelech]

Is there are Motoring club at Lancaster?
I ask because it says that there is on the Lancaster Uni site but the web link doesnt work and it is not listed on the Lancaster Student Union Site.

Its just something i would be interested in doing at Lancaster

[floss]

Depends what you mean by doing?! It doesn't spring to mind but I'm a club person rather than a societies person. Try doing a facebook search and see what you get.

I know that there's a Fiat Punto Owners Group as they stuck a flyer on my friend's last year.

[jmelech]

well an example of a uni that has a motoring club (forgot which)
has a their own car that they run and maintain while participating in races such as stage rallies and road rallies.

Thats the sort of thing i was looking for

[floss]

Lancaster doesn't have one of those I'm afraid. Or if it does they keep it well hidden. You can start new societies if you can get together something like 20 memebers.. but I'm not sure..

[zooeyj]

Well considering you can't park a car on campus without it being clamped not sure they'd love a motoring club!

[Lizj]

(Original post by zooeyj)
Well considering you can't park a car on campus without it being clamped not sure they'd love a motoring club!

Haha, you would all have to get the bus to meetings!

[floss]

if it had no wheels then they couldn't clamp it!!

they've gone a bit quiet on the clamping front..

[Pacibald]

Haha and then did you get the email about not parking around the uni? LOLZ! they shouldnt be so stingy with the parking permits imo...you can make a motoring society if your really interested, its not amazingly hard if you get some interest in it, the person who lives opposite me has started an engineering society so as long as you do it by the book its all gravy...i want to start a fuzzball society/club...

[JimiF3000]

(Original post by Pacibald)
Haha and then did you get the email about not parking around the uni? LOLZ! they shouldnt be so stingy with the parking permits imo...you can make a motoring society if your really interested, its not amazingly hard if you get some interest in it, the person who lives opposite me has started an engineering society so as long as you do it by the book its all gravy...i want to start a fuzzball society/club...

The reason they're so stingy about it is because there's only limited spaces.

All you'd need is 20 signatures and purple card numbers from people interested in it, then take it to LUSU.

[DrDuck]

What what what? clamped for parking on campus? I haven't had my car as a garaged project for over a year just to sell it when I go to uni.

Sorry for thread hijack btw.

Oh and a motoring club sounds like a fantastic idea jmelech

[browzer-911]

There was a motoring club at the start of last year... I saw posters for it and wanted to join but couldnt find them at freshers fair The poster said the club had its own V8 car you could fettle with aswell.

RE the parking, they do sem to have gone quiet about it now, on south west anyway. Ive bought my car up and parked it there to enjoy for last half of summer term and had no tickets yet. (blue mk.2 MR2 GT for anyone interested:P )

Incase i do get any how many can you have before getting clamped? Heard different things from people.

[floss]

Apparnetly security were on a training week last week but are going to be stepping it up again next week..

[Pacibald]

you get 2 tickets then the 3rd is a clamp which is £60 to get off.
And i realise that theres limited spaces, yet they are clamping people when there are still plenty of spaces which i can see, they also wouldnt give my mate a permit so he could drive home and care for his mum whos ill at the weekend.
Im gonna try and bring my motor up next year, thats if i get a new one soon...

[samborona]

Is there anywhere in Bailrigg or somewhere relatively nearby that you could leave a car if need be? I probably wouldn't use it that much during term time easier to get bus or whatever, but train journey is appalling and really pricey, plus I'll be joining a reserve force of some description which will require travel - but I doubt I would get a permit.

Security wise I'm taking my alloys off, I'd empty the car so you can see there is nothing inside it (ICE wise) and disconnect the battery but obviously still a bit risky.

It's fair enough that they are going for the whole green campus thing and not many spaces, but with it being a campus uni I would have thought some clubs/societies would need cars to make use of the lake district for example.

Re: the motoring club restoring a car would be awesome but possibly be hard to setup, I think other places do go karting and organise trips to TOCA and the like rather than actual car restoration.

[browzer-911]

The police towed away loads of cars on the road outside cartmel today! I saw atleast 2 lorries each with 2 cars on.

[-- Dan --]

(Original post by floss)
Apparnetly security were on a training week last week but are going to be stepping it up again next week..

I watched them learning how to attatch wheel clamps outside the conference centre. Loads of security guards, one instructor, and they all got a go each at putting them on and taking them off.

So beware...they're out to get us! (Which is bad news for me, cos my car's coming up this week!)

[floss]

(Original post by -- Dan --)
I watched them learning how to attatch wheel clamps outside the conference centre. Loads of security guards, one instructor, and they all got a go each at putting them on and taking them off.

So beware...they're out to get us! (Which is bad news for me, cos my car's coming up this week!)

looks like somebody's going to be buying day tickets or a £30/40 fine!!

[samborona]

So is there nowhere to leave a car without a permit without getting clamped/towed away?

[DannyOwens]

Nope...

[Ministry]

I don't think it's been mentioned yet: the Uni has just recruited more security officers specifically to crack down on parking, and the police have become involved in preventing people parking on nearby roads.

Bottom line: if you can prove need and obtain a permit (Student Support can help genuine cases) you shouldn't have a problem, but living on campus doesn't carry any right to park a car just because you want one! As the Uni website flatly states:

Students are not normally allowed car parking permits to park on campus.

People have got away with it in recent years, but it's a near-certainty that things'll be very different next term.