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PersonBob61
15/5/2014 at 6:21pm
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Quite coincidentally I have just returned from a campsite where there was no regimentation and it was pitch where you like but not within 6 metres of anyone else. That proved more difficult than you might think. Everyone naturally had to be within 20 metres of the EHU pillars but they had all pitched at different angles and in different directions so trying to find a pitch also within 20 metres of an EHU pillar and yet not encroaching on anyone else's privacy or view was almost impossible

...and I forgot to mention the spaghetti of EHU leads running in all directions!

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PersonBarbie Girl
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I wish it was law. Some pitches are so tight you could touch next doors van from your door. ... yet the Warden days 6m apart. ...hhmmmm how when the pitches are so close ! !

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PersonRomaway
15/5/2014 at 10:22pm
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Bit silly to have a free for all if electric hook up is involved!


PersonBob61
16/5/2014 at 12:14am
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Quote: Originally posted by Romaway on 15/5/2014
Bit silly to have a free for all if electric hook up is involved!




That is what I thought and after a complaint to the site staff that I couldn't find a decent pitch without encroaching on other people (not helped by the waterlogged state of remaining spaces) I was taken to a moderately decent area but then the warden had to transfer the EHU that was already plugged in so that I could use the pillar...my first trip of the year and it wasn't a particularly positive one - lol.


Personautopilot
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Quote: Originally posted by fran1000 on 13/5/2014
Quote: Originally posted by mummyintent on 13/5/2014It isn't a law, look at the big festivals!
Just something that the clubs and many others enforce, for various reasons, like fire safety.



The way tents are packed in at festivals terrifies me. If one ever went up, it would be a disaster, especially if it happened in the early morning when all the revellers are sleeping it off.



Many years ago I was at Glastonbury festival sitting in the green fields at 4am. Someone set of a flare from a flare gun and everyone was cheering... Apart from me, and a few others, who realised the idiot had got hold of a marine (sea) flare, which are design to land on the sea and keep burning for a while. It landed in the camping area and about 15 tents went up in flames. Amazingly there was no on in the tents. At 4am! To this day I can't believe how lucky people were .


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21/5/2014 at 8:19pm
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As far as I recall from designing a camp site (and my memory is faulty), the 6m rule is for fire safety. If a unit goes up in flames, the 6m rule is to stop the next door unit going up in flames too. Which is why I was cross (but also anxious) to come back to a site at Galway to find a tent pitched so close its guy lines crossed ours. Privacy criteria vary from person to person and are subjective, fire safety is measurable and therefore objective.


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we steward at a steam rally and try whenever possibly to enforce 6m rule for safety / fire reasons and have been told that the vans all have to have tow bars hacing up field as to add fire brigade etc incase of fire. It makes it easier and quicker if emergency vehicles know where the towbars are and dont have to waste time as they would if some vans where one way round and some the other


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It is very definitely a regulation adapted from the caravan sites and Control Development Act 1960 Local authorities have a adapted the 6m regulation that caravan sites should be complying with to avoid any issues. A lot depends on what the local fire authority state.



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