Lovely site and location but don’t visit unless you are happy to listen to barking dogs
A nice site site and GREAT STAFF in every respect BUT they declined to take any action about noisy dogs. We suggested that they mention keeping dogs quiet to owners on arrival but staff said that CMC Head Office wouldn’t allow them to, as they wouldn’t want to add to the list of rules on arrival after a long journey! We gained the impression that staff believe that Head Office is nervous about upsetting dog owners because of commercial reasons. Barking dogs were evident throughout the day but particularly early and late in the day, before and after the staff were on duty - hence they didn’t hear them. During the day staff were usually operating machinery and had ear defenders on! We were at the far end of the site well away from staff accommodation which is why they didn’t hear them. Staff suggested that we politely approach offending owners ourselves. We did this on a site earlier this year and were subjected to an very aggressive and threatening response from a defensive dog owner - never again. We like dogs and most owners on the site were considerate, but a significant minority were not. Could staff please be instructed/empowered to be proactive in tackling this growing problem, not just during duty hours. We experienced an identical problem on the CCC site at Keswick earlier this year. However the wardens there were proactive and spoke to owners before getting complaints. The dog owners on a pitch close to ours were spoken to very politely but firmly and chose to leave the following day as they were incapable of controlling their dogs. If this growing problem isn’t addressed soon it is going to spoil lots of holidays.
MalJon1
Reviewed on 26/08/2018 08:54
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