I think the world has gone wrong (quite a while ago actually!
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I've heard that personal trainers in Sydney are slugged a fee to use the parks and foreshore. It's filtering in here also on the Surf Coast and Bellarine Peninsula, and Geelong.
I think it is totally wrong! It just drives up the price for the people who are trying to do something positive for themselves...
2 mates can go and train together for free... But a personal trainer and the paying member of the public have to cough up an annual fee... Just Wrong!
PARKS ARE FOR EVERYONE!!
I think it's just money grabbing from councils.
(anyway, surf is pumping, I'm outta here!)
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Um, if you're charging a fee and using council provided equipment (lots of parks have those little exercise stations - and the personal trainers often run circuit groups on them, and also use park benches etc) you should pay. In many cases you're actually preventing the general public from using the facilities / area, especially when you get multiple PT's or PT's running quite big groups and multiple sessions. Absolutely they should get charged. And those fees should be put straight back into local ammenities.
I agree, if youre training with a mate and no money is swapping hands, then no payment.
If you are using the place as your businesses leisure centre, then you should pay a fee.
You wouldnt see a chef go down to the local park and use the BBQ's and outdoor tables without some sort of fee's charged.
I understand that it is public property and that people can use it for free, but it is fair to pay a fee if you are gaining personal monetary rewards while using that equipment.
You basically help pay a fee to the council to help create these parks and maintain them.
Sorry mate, I think its a fair call....
Can't believe that some agree this should be charged out. What a load of rubbish. What the hell do you pay your council rates and tax for. What are these guys and girls going to do, wear the bloody foot path and the grass out?
Give me a break you guys, you pay rates and tax, then the council charges these guys for use of, these guys on charge you, and you actually pay twice
Its the same bloody issue with Councils hiring security guards. You pay the bloody Government tax to supply policing, then the council because the Government can't or won't add cops in its force, and you are slugged again by council for this added program
Simondo, backing you 100% on this issue. Its crap
if people want to get married in a park on the gold coast,they have to pay,no matter how small. i own hotdog carts and the crap i have to go through and the money i have to pay is ricockulous. the personal trainers could get their fat clients to start mowing lawns. or guess what they could open a studio,fit it out and pay big rent to boot and then complain about what the thieving council wants.
if you don't like the fees just grab your mate and go for a run, like you said
i find paying a lot of money to do something you could do for free silly.
those boot camps carrying on down at the beach sh!t me.
If a majority of bussinesses were to use public open space as their work site, then the general public wouldn't be able to use the same space. Also there would be excessive wear and tear on these sites that wouldn't usually occur.
excellent i will go move my IT company out into the park across the road and not have to pay $400K a year in rent and all the other expenses i cough up for each year . i mean if it's good enough for PT's to have low overheads , why should i pay massive overheads right ?
To break up the routine I do the odd session down the beach with my trainer, I'd expect to be able to do it for free without hindrance from the shire as its only a one-on-one session and not causing a nuisance to anyone. On the other hand I'd expect that if a PT was going to run a group session at the same park every weekday at 5pm and again on Saturday mornings on equipment provided by someone else they would register with the shire, pay their dues and prove they have insurance etc.
If I was paying a PT good money for a group session in the same park, at the same time each week I'd expect they have jumped through all the hoops and are qualified, registered and insured - that's what I'm paying good money for.
If I wanted to be trained by an idiot that has no fricken clue I'd go to the gym at work and do it by myself
Are driving instructors paying special fees to operate a buisness on the roads???
What about boat instructors?
Surf clubs should pay as well for training nippers if we fall in that trap!
What a lot of crakadoodle money grabing bastard councils! What about car detailers?????
I agree, fair enough to have a fee for Mr Hot Dog Van, and Mr Whippy;
But the parks should be free, so you can lose the fat you got from Mr Hot Dog & Mr Whippy !!
Park use needs to encouraged, not discouraged !!
I would imagine for the council it all comes down to liability.
If someone is training in the park, especially if they are using park equipment, and they hurt themselves, who is responsible ... the trainer or the council?
I say charge them. There has been times my kids were glared at as they tried to use the play equipment for god sake
These PT's are making $2K a week for stuff all hours, I think they can afford it.
It is parkland supplied for all but as soon as they are running a business there with no overheads they should pay. Especially as it was kind of a good idea by a few, but now everybody is jumping on the bandwagon and it will eventually reduce access for others, or come to fighting over space between rival PT's.
Thus a fee and the council running a booking sheet / authorised times strikes a balance betwen the needs of many and the profit of a few.
