I'm sorry I cannot elaborate. I'm interested in anything to do with beach closures (or rumours thereof) but I cannot find anything yet on google. Are you able to cite the source? Newspaper, edition, date written, who the reporter is?
In the search for this story, I came across a link stating that Corton Beach was losing its sand and that you might end up sunbathing on stones.
I don't know enough about this place or situation to comment but it sounds like (yet again) that nudists are being expected to give way for textiles or developers.
This also shows the confusion that can sometimes surround nudist and clothing-optional beaches. My experience here has been that people sometimes believe that "nudist" beaches are for the exclusive use of people being nude when such beaches are actually "clothing-optional" (which I have no problem with. I'm okay about "sharing the land" with textiles but expect the courtesy to be reciprocal). Even the policy analysts who advise local authority councillors don't understand this distinction. That's possibly what's happening at Corton.
I will be interested to see what the outcome is but if BN are preparing a concerted response to this, I would suggest that a good first move would be to contact them and get behind their action. For any umbrella group to be effective, they need the numbers and a clear mandate to act from those they represent.
But there are some questions that the local authority should be answering. What is causing the sand loss? what they are doing about it and why do they think that making the nude beach available to textiles will help? Are the groynes that protect the nude section preventing sand loss? If so, wouldn't it make more sense to extend the groynes along the entire beach then slowly resand the beach (as has been done here for some of our urban beaches here in New Zealand). Someone with a better grasp of the local conditions could hopefully answer this.
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Posted - 12/14/2008 : 6:54:30 PM
