The Ideal PH House?
Following Division meeting last night I will be going on a Magical Mystery Tour of PH Houses over Hampshire to look at what’s out there. This is ‘cos our local site is planning to build a replacement PH house for the breeze block Barn they have now. Bless being all Guidey like they don’t have a lot of the Building common sense you might find amongst Scouters … so I’m going to keep them in line & deal with practicalities of PH Houses. I fear I will end up banging some heads together in the process (although Kestrel may join us to back me up!)
So I’m after a bit of the readership’s help ... I’m sure between us all we’ve staying in the good, the bad, the falling apart …So if you have photographic examples (particularly the good) of this would love you to e-mail me them. The readership should know where to find me.
So if you are booking indoor accommodation what would you say are the things you MUST have, along with what its really nice to have ... In the comments boxes please.
…at least it seems they’ve finally realised that the architect’s dream PH house, isn’t a practical one (not to mention he didn’t seem to have thought of CDM regulations!). I wasn’t going to stay there with pothole windows to see the stars at night in the dorm (Architect on Cloud Cuckooland warning!), who was going to clean them and was he going to try and get Brownies to sleep there in the summer?
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Call me biased, but I quite like Pauline's Lodge at Cricket Camp.
Even with their lovely shower system (you need a shower buddy as the button for the water is outside the shower!). he's only saying that as its up the road from his mum, and spent most of his Scouting camping days there.
Er no, I like it because I think it's a good design.
Pauline's design is ace. Fantastic mix of bunk room sizes - great spec kitchen - one large social space (needs a break-out room).
Horrid fire doors go bang every time someone goes to the loo in the night
Showers are so horrid that there is no issue about the mess that 30 sea scouts make after a day canoeing in the muddy Hamble estuary. We always blamed the campers...
Still - as a basic footprint I think it has a lot to recommend it. First floor access above garage / workshop / stores is a good economical approach if the topography allows.
We've been to Pauline's Lodge for both the pack holidays I've run (my licence one and the one this year). It seems to cover most bases well, although the showers could be better. LOL at the loo doors at night ... we just ended up propping the loo door open at night to get some decent sleep! We really like the washing up room with the Brownies, as if saves having to go through the kitchen at washing up time. Only bugbear in the kitchen is that instead of the bain marie that doesn't seem to work/ get used it would be better to just have worktop.
The land is fairly flat (with lots of rabbit holes), for those who've been to Lyons Copse its the Guide Site next door. The plan is for a 1 storey PH house, with campsite loos & showers.
Have you been to "Pettypool" its in Sandiway in Cheshire. Its quite good there, although would benefit from good showers for young people and grown ups in the pack holiday house.
I shall have a dig about for more information for you.
www.hebdenhey.org.uk will give you details of the Tom Bell hostel at Hebden Hey, which if you add in the Day Centre section underneath as a second activity room is one of the best hostels I have ever used. Although it is some years since I visited.
CDM? Isn't that Cadbury's Dairy Milk? Are there regulations for that?!?! Will ponder the pack holiday house question a little futher before replying tomorrow, when I'll be able to form sentences instead of whittering!! :-)
CDM, whilst often the abbreviation for some fine milk chocolate... also stands for Construction (Design & Maintenance) Regulations.
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