Simondo said...

I think the world has gone wrong (quite a while ago actually!)....

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!)

Yes!

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.

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

Pitbull said...

If anyone is operating as a business, then they are required to pay their dues.

yep............. taxes.

tmurray said...

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.

Bull crap..... you are telling me now that if someone direct you on how to use the equipment you fall in a different category from general puplic. At the end the trainer is passing the cost to the trainee at no expense to him and you are the mug paying the council double tax............ very good Mr murray! You should be a council CEO!

chrispychru said...

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.

You should be able to park your hotdog where ever you like, oh I mean hotdog cart, not just ya hotdog

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

Working out AND light beer! Now there's a bad combo.

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Low carb mid strength

felixdcat said...

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?????

Drivig instructors are a registered business and pay higher rego fees. The same would be with boaties. Surf clubs are operated by councils. Car detailers are smart and don't tend to operate from public spaces but on private properties and they move around alot which makes it hard to catch them.

Pitbull said...

felixdcat said...

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?????

Drivig instructors are a registered business and pay higher rego fees. The same would be with boaties. Surf clubs are operated by councils. Car detailers are smart and don't tend to operate from public spaces but on private properties and they move around alot which makes it hard to catch them.

Yes but not to councils!

felixdcat said...

Pitbull said...

felixdcat said...

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?????

Drivig instructors are a registered business and pay higher rego fees. The same would be with boaties. Surf clubs are operated by councils. Car detailers are smart and don't tend to operate from public spaces but on private properties and they move around alot which makes it hard to catch them.

Yes but not to councils!

Maybe driving instructors should be charged a fee by the council as a regular road user they are without doubt wearing out the road.

As a member of the public and using 'public' property I find the idea absurd that a council would charge its ratepayers.... Yes, if the PT has to pay a fee to council to take the students there he will pass it on to his students who already flippin pay for the park in the first place.

Crikey, come to my area there's hardly a spot left in any beachside park at 6am. And that's great...... It's what they are there for.