National rally - why has it sold out so soon?

No body has spoken to me about it,

We have booked the cc site at Sandringham, another club has a site in the same area

I have tried to give my feed back on it to the caravan club but as I have said before  no one cares about it  .it just has up set me as my little girl photo is still being used for the promotion of the national 

How have you gone about complaining Sparky? Though I have to say it is a little late if the picture is in print, is it a random photo with your daughter in it or actually a photo OF your little girl? There is always a photographer wandering round the National taking pictures of people enjoying themselves, unless you can catch her and say 'I don't want a picture of my child used as publicity' there is not a lot you can do except put it in writing as soon as you see it in print, the Club would then be obliged to remove it.

Alison

I see there is now a list on the National page of Club Sites and rallies (relatively) near so if some of those on the waiting list make alternative arrangements to go as day visitors then the waiting list will possibly go down (as long as they remember to take their names off it of course)

Alison

What is the capacity for this years National, seen comments about making it a lower figure than previous years. Is that true?

Good to see it sold out, first time in how many years?

Not considered it this year - wrong side of the country for us.

Each National venue is different, some are bigger than others and as long as our outfits keep getting bigger the pitches grow accordingly. This year all pitches are 11m x 10m to accommodate car, caravan & awning. We have attended two previous Nationals at Sandringham and I suspect there are less pitches than the last time we were there simply because pitch size has grown and regulations have also changed a little since then too. 

The warnings went out to book early as this National is special (it is the 90th) the upside of that is that some will have booked to be sure of a space without being sure they can actually attend, so there is a chance of getting a space right up to the last minute.

Alison

My understanding is that the space allocation has reduced by 245 units since the last National I attended at Sandringham.  This is because of the larger pitch spacing that has been recommended following so many fire related incidents.

The good news for Centres is that many rallies being run over the same period are filling up quickly.

That and the need to provide everyone with an ehu (are you reading this Merve?).  

I am aware of one fire related incident on a rally which had devastating consequences are you saying that there have been others where tight spacing has caused further consequences?

Believe me, one incident like that was one too many. 

We do not need anything like that in any gathering

EVER AGAIN !

Alison