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nothing. i think some private sites are becoming more greedy and wanting to charge for 2 pitches as an excuse.

atko

A 7m x 5m tent with a retangular footprint would rarely encounter a problem fitting onto an average pitch. The trouble is with the more sprawling dome tents, which can start at a modest 6.5m x 6.5m (ie my 12-man Vango Colorado 1200dlx, on the smaller end of the nominal 12 man domes) and going up to 11m x 11m or more. Pitches tent to be square, yup, but if you're aiming for a 3m gap round the back and  sides of a pitch (the front is usually exempt from this boundary rule) then you end up with a rectangular permitted pitching area in the centre, and this is less suitable for dome tents.

Moral of the tale is to buy a tent with a rectangular foortprint, and you'll find it fits on more pitches than a comparable berth-size dome tent.

It has something to do with the shape of may of the dome tents, which have a central dome, and then pods sticking out at various angles around the dome.   Then you have the guy ropes to support the pods taking up more space.    These can all take up a considerable amount of spaces.
Where as something like a TT is rectangular, and despite frequently offering more space, can actually take up less pitch space.    If you look at some of the tents with the central domes, and then pods - a lot of space is lost between the domes - yet this still takes up pitch space.