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Quote: Originally posted by and1145 on 12/10/2013

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Oh yes, and after driving 400 miles to a cc site in cornwall being made to line up with 6 other vans like naughty children until the clock strikes 12 !!!

"The wardens are getting the pitches ready" ,

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Quote: Originally posted by and1145 on 12/10/2013

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Oh yes, and after driving 400 miles to a cc site in cornwall being made to line up with 6 other vans like naughty children until the clock strikes 12 !!!

"The wardens are getting the pitches ready" ,

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Quote: Originally posted by and1145 on 12/10/2013

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Oh yes, and after driving 400 miles to a cc site in cornwall being made to line up with 6 other vans like naughty children until the clock strikes 12 !!!

"The wardens are getting the pitches ready" ,

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Its even worse at Sandringham, arrived 10 mins early, not causing any obstruction at all, just waiting by the office for the ten mins to tick away when out comes the jobsworth of a warden who barked at us to turn around and go park down by the visitor centre about a mile down the road and return after 12 noon. he refused to raise the barrier to allow us to turn around more easily, and insisted we did a very tight swing with our brand new hitch screaming and groaning inorder to exit the site.

By the time we had got onto the visitor centre car park it was time to come back again, but we were very angry as we had to use a rather bumpy tree rooted road to gain access to where we were sent, not good for any caravans construction.

Julia

Quote: Originally posted by TonyC52 on 10/10/2013

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The exercise is due to complete soon. The Club have declined to give information on the full extent of the changes until it is complete. It will probably be next year when we see what these changes actually mean.

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I have it on good authority that the Club set out on this exercise because last year there were three serious fires on Club sites. Understandably this has caused them to look seriously at pitch spacing. Whether because of pressure from those investigating the fires or because insurance companies have made it a condition of cover. When I was told this I mentioned to the person giving me this information that members would have been far more sympathetic to the changes had they been aware of the background information. Something the Club still has a lot to learn from.

David

Tony

I did make that point to the person that told me who was very high up

David

Quote: Originally posted by Taxater on 09/10/2013

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I thought the non-awning pitches were for motorhomes.

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Quote: Originally posted by rabble on 14/10/2013

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I D.A. camping with the C&CC and this thread just confirms it!

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Quote: Originally posted by romany girl on 13/10/2013Well even under the new spacing regime there certainly wasnt 3 mtrs between the side of our caravan and next pitches car on our non awning pitch.

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Are the club now measuring the distances and taking the minimum as being 3mtrs between just the caravans on these pitches?

Surely a parked car is just as risky to go up in flames or of being ignited as a caravan is?

For us the rule of the non awning pitches was to park your car to the right of your caravan, leaving less than a mtr of grass verge before the next caravan had about another mtr in which to store its water hog ect, so in

total no where near 3mtrs between the left of your caravan and next doors parked car.

Julia

Julia

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Post last edited on 13/10/2013 22:48:05

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Hi Julia I was informed by a member of the Fire Brigade many years ago that there had to be 26ft 8 inches between the centre of one tow hitch and the next which is just over 8 metres this would allow for a  8ft wide awning and a car plus 3to 4 ft for the guy next door to empty his dirty water barrel + fill his fresh water containers but more inportant room for the Brigade to get up and douse your awning or tackle the fire in the next van, I always where possible park my motor at right angles to my tow hitch. and awning, bonnet to hitch so my beloved can still see out of front windows also acts as a wind break for awning,leaving room for us to sunbath at side of awning "weather permitting." But there again I have been on sites where I have been given a parking drawing by reception detailing I had to park my car on the off side of the van with a gap no more than a metre wide between car and my van, But now vans are legal at 3metres and some awnings are 3600 mm wide plus cars are now wider than my first moggi 1000                       WHAT HAPPENED TO yards feet and inches

   I think That even 28ft 8inches or 8metres has gone by the board now days, what are your thoughts on this Scouse Git