I am wondering why the Caravan Club has a rule that you must pitch your caravan with the offside rear next to the pitch marker.
What difference does it make how a caravan is sited on a hardstanding pitch?
I wonder why there is the rule. I like to have my caravan so it gets sunlight through the front window but on some pitches this would mean having it at 90 degrees or 180 degrees from the correct position.
I feel that I am paying for the pitch and it should be up to me how I use the space.
I am not blaming the site staff who are only enforcing a rule made by someone else.
------------- We camped for years. In 2019 we bought an Elddis Avante 454. We like it as it is short (6.9m) and fits in our driveway and has a fixed bed.
We had 127 nights away in the caravan in 2023.
Never stayed at a CC site, always found private sites very good.
My guess is that it ensures the units are correctly spaced for fire regulations.
Having been on a site when a van went up you wouldn't want to be near one. Tea towel over the cooker. Luckily no-one hurt bit couples holiday ended abruptly and many memories inside.
I have been on many sites that tell you where to position your van on the pitch, so its not just the Caravan Club. Fire regulations usually require 6m between units so the sites have to comply. The sun moves all day so what does it matter anyway.
If you don't like the rules don't use the CC.
Quote: Originally posted by Taylor56 on 29/10/2016
If you don't like the rules don't use the CC.
I can see your point but as it is a club it should be possible for members to get things changed.
------------- We camped for years. In 2019 we bought an Elddis Avante 454. We like it as it is short (6.9m) and fits in our driveway and has a fixed bed.
We had 127 nights away in the caravan in 2023.
It is about spacing for fire rules ... not so long ago you could park where you liked within the hardstanding. I don't mind the new rules as we enjoy the overall quality and ambiance CC sites provide.
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I have been on a non awning pitch at one CC site where a warden advised that there was a better front window view if I place the van with the nearside front corner at the post. The car was kept on the nearside of the van. He was right, so there can be some flexibility without awnings, but there are fire regulations otherwise.
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If the rule was not in place you could have one person pitching on the extreme right and the next one pitching on the extreme left of their pitches.
That would leave about 2-3 metres between caravans in some cases, the width of the grass strip.
Apart from the safety issue, just a bit close for any kind of reasonable privacy imo.
The sites that use this rule, including the C.C. have got it right for the reasons above imo.
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The problem with allowing people to pitch where they want to is that there is a danger that they might then enjoy their holiday. I agree with Kelper that there do not seem to be any more problems on continental sites where no such rules normally prevail. The vast majority of campers have enough sense to take fire precautions seriously anyway.
In the vast majority of cases it works well going Car, Caravan Awning, Car, Caravan Awning, etc on pitches, but alot of people have non Uk vans now with the door on the wrong side, and have to park Nose, to keep the distances correct, thus upsetting the apple cart., what about the ones where you have to park the car across the front of the pitch this goes against also the 6m spacing as the pitches are too small to go Car, Caravan, Awning. Seem liker rules gone mad. One particular site Moreton in Marsh CC Site. No room for car at side of van and vans close together.
There are generally never any problems with units being close together. Until one goes up in flames and spreads to the next unit, then the next unit etc.....
I honestly don't think safety rules are there to spoil your holiday.
Its to protect you and your family, ask any fireman!
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Personally, I have no problem with the white peg method.
As others have said ,it provides a safe distance between units.
I think it is also intended (for most UK units)
that you do not overlook your neighbour from your exit door.
Regards,
Greg
We also have no problem with the white peg method which is by no means limited to CC and C&CC sites, we've also come across it in private sites - and at least one private site where you weren't allowed to have your car on the pitch but had to leave it in the car park.
We've used plenty of continental sites with no rules about pitching. That's fine if the pitches have hedges or other types of boundary markings, but there are plenty of sites with no such markings where people simply pitch all over the place, often taking up more than their fair share of room or ending up so close that you can't open a window without hitting their open window!
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If the pitches were a decent size, and not like Sainsbuys parking bays, units could nearly pitch how they liked, and there would still be a decent fire gap.
Who decided 6 metres was a safe gap anyway? Anybody pitched 6 metres from a raging caravan is going to go up in flames with it - unless theres a very strong wind the other direction. And, dont cars catch fire in between, then?
I've long had my fill of club sites, after being on too many that resembled storage yards. Wheres the aforementioned 'ambiance' and tranquility - not to mention privacy, with someone parked on top of you, as in these places??
Perhaps it is to do with the add ons that folk seem to favour at the moment.
I am looking at one now. Pitched correctly to peg and has a huge awning that overlaps the hard standing on one side and because of the array of water containers and covers has parked the car half on the grass between the next pitch.
Who knows, perhaps they have decided to live there permanently.
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Topic: Where to pitch
