Website Information Updates

We are currently updating the information on this website and apologise if a lot of things are out of date but we have been very busy trying to organize a meeting with Anthony Rogers at BCP and the new portfolio holders We had a Committee Meeting in October to discuss how we continue to help all our Members and we do want to remind those of you who have overlooked renewing or rejoining us to do so. We will keep you informed of important information and please contact me if you have any ...

AGM reminder

Please don't forget our AGM on Thursday 20th April 2023 All Saints Church Hall, Castlemain Avenue, Bournemouth BH6 5EH 7pm We will have officers from BCP so please submit any questions to by 13th April or call Ann on 01202 429898. We'd be grateful if you could RSVP for catering purposes, too. See you there

Winter newsletters have been sent

The Winter newsletters are on their way! Please check your junk mail box if you haven't received yours by email, as expected.

Newsletter delayed

Apologies that our autumn newsletter will be a bit later this year. As you may have worked out, we have been working really hard on challenging BCP's plans for increasing our fees and over the the next five years. This is taking up a lot of our time with copious emails and meetings. We thought it made sense to wait until we have the final outcome, and our plans now, to share in the newsletter.We hope to be able to go to print in January. Merry Christmas to you all.

SHOCKING INCREASES IN RENT PROPOSED

BCP have come up with a five-year plan to 'harmonise' beach huts across the three towns and hut users are the losers You are probably aware that the BCP's original plan to sell the next 20 years worth of Beach Hut Licences to a company (a Special Purposes Vehicle, ‘SPV’) was dropped after intervention from Central Government. The Central Government Minister said that the plan did not follow the ’spirit’ of the Flexible Use of Capital Reserves (FUCR) legislation and the Government wanted to ...

So we finally replaced our Beach Hut

Hut in the workshop beginning to take shapeHi to those that dont know me, I'm Ian and I have put togther the website for the Beach Hut Association. When we first were lucky enough to get our name onto the Beach Hut waiting list we looked around for information around Beach Huts in Bournemouth and struggled to find any supporting information. Once we had been lucky enough to get to the stage of owning our own hut down on the beach we were beach hut novices and still didnt know where to get the ...

Bournemouth Beach Hut Association AGM 2022

Bournemouth Beach Hut Association Please join us for our AGM Thursday 28 April 7pm All Saints Church, Castlemain Avenue, Bournemouth BH6 5EH Understandably, some of you may still be cautious about large gatherings. Whilst we anticipate there will be even fewer COVID guidelines to follow by then, we aim to make the event as safe as possible and can keep doors and windows open for ventilation. Chairs will be spaced further apart than usual and, by all means, wear a face covering if you feel more ...

Welcome to Bournemouth Beach Hut Association

Welcome to the website of the Bournemouth Beach Hut Association (BBHA), we're working hard to make this a useful source of information for the beach hut owners and tenants of Bournemouth so please keep checking the site. The site has been configured with your current membership number, this becomes your user name on the website, your password will be sent to you in the latest version of the association's Newsletter. If you are a member of BBHA already and would like your log-in details to ...

We need your support

Please contact your ward councillor or portfolio holder, Cllr Mohan Iynegar at to support our request to be treated fairly. Following the ‘will they-won’they’ debacle over beach hut users getting any sort of refund for 2020, you may recall that we were promised a freeze on our licence fees for 2021. We were told this had been made possible by beach hut fees being included in the 15% reduction in VAT that the government introduced to help businesses through the pandemic. Whilst many felt this ...

Beach Hut History

There are thought to be 20,000 private beach huts in the UK, including ones owned by celebrities such as Suggs, from Madness, in Whitstable, and the Rolling Stones’ Keith Richards at West Wittering in Sussex. Beach Huts have become the Icons of the British Seaside Resort, even though they come with limited facilities and are small in size. Popularity is till growing with many of Bournemouth Borough Councils waiting lists closed for new entries. Form of the beach hut can vary from town to town ...