Caravan spacings on rallies

Why dont you email head office with your questions about spacings when running a CC rally. They will be the people who know all the answers ---------- I'm sure you wil  get a speedy response . 

Boff, I haven't checked the Natiural England website but it did used to be there. I'll have another look.

The club has sent guidelines to all the centre committees and regional councils so they will have them. A subset is available on the North Yorkshire Centre website

https://nycentre1.wordpress.com/about/rally-officer/

Boff, I haven't checked the Natiural England website but it did used to be there. I'll have another look.

The club has sent guidelines to all the centre committees and regional councils so they will have them. A subset is available on the North Yorkshire Centre website

https://nycentre1.wordpress.com/about/rally-officer/

Andy, link activated Hope that's OK.

Dave

Thanks Dave

Surely after all this debating is it isn't it ,the spacing of units be it caravans or motorhomes is plainly and simply common sense.

Brian & Jo

I had never heard of Natural England until I read this thread.  Sounds too like it is something to do with nudists.

The standards for spacing arise from S5 of the Caravan Sites and Control of Development Act 1960. There are central government model standards for static sites on the National Archives web site but that appears to be because the legislation changed relatively recently. Model standards for touring sites were published in 1983 so have not been loaded centrally to the Internet but most councils publish their own versions, e.g. Eden Council on a link from this page.

As the standards are models they can be varied and they do only apply to licensed sites, not to CLs or rallies. Club rules (both CC and other clubs) govern spacing on CLs and rallies but tend to be based on the models in the absence of anything more appropriate.

Spacing (or lack of) at motorway services (and the motorhome "aire" at Canterbury for instance) is legal because the standards are only models, not binding requirements. Having said that, MSAs usually have a ban on the use of gas appliances anyway, especially in HGV areas where there may be hazardous loads.

Graham

If one unit (wherever sited/parked) starts a fire that spreads to damage other units or property there is a liability on its owner for damages, and also on any person/organisation that has control over how the vehicles were sited/parked. A possible defence to the latter is that they were arranged in accordance with best practice.  Which is the 6m!