Commercial Benefits of Motorhome Towns - Campaign

the number that park . . .  with their posterior hanging out into the carriage way,

That is what happens when I park my Discovery in very many places! I also have side-steps fitted so I can get out the door and slide along as the space either side is also often so limited.

I don't think it is a particularly big vehicle, especially if I am one of three adults sitting in the back seats.

I certainly have no wish to drive our MH, which isn't huge at 6.94m down narrow lanes and struggle to find somewhere to park it. When abroad, we will make use of Aires when we want to get close to towns, or in France the municipal campsites are often ideally situated. Here we just tend to pick our sites a bit more carefully. Even with the caravan we liked sites with public transport, as I much preferred leaving the car on site as much as possible. Probably only using it to go shopping. If the site is more remote, we now just make sure we have 3 / 4 days of provisions and then move on and restock on route. Sites are picked for good walking and nearby places of interest. Although we do plan to get some ebikes to increase our range.

I agree that a lot of car parks both supermarket and L.A. seem to have been laid out with measurements to accommodate vehicles from the 60s before "safety" crash cages?were included in vehicles,just note a real mini and the bmw"mini?"we followed a rover 100 (1960) and that was a big care back then but it looked tiny compared to our Sportage

The recommended size is 2.4 wide by 4.8 deep and for perpendicular bays 6m between bays. Some are of course smaller. 

That's where "recomendations"are open to the designers thoughts on what can be achieved 

Indeed JVB. Many of those car park layouts designed by me had larger spaces. 

Steve, OT, sorry....but just a quick one....parking on French village side streets or even in larger towns isn't that difficult.

we tend to do it more when passing through and stopping for a couple of hours rather than taking the van out from the site....our bikes fill that job easily.

french supermarket carparks are also huge and under occupied so finding somewhere to tuck away is easy....Lidl now provide a number of dedicated bays.

all this breeds more confidence in getting where you want to be.

glad you're having fun.

Do you know why side steps were fitted ? To stop cars banging doors into ours ..Bit of useless info 

The real purpose of the side step, or running board as it was originally called, was so that one's riding mechanic could get out and work on the engine while the vehicle was travelling.

Must dig out my pair of leather driving gauntlets - they reach up to my elbows.

I thought the club did run MH courses.

6'6"? Is that MH's or Tesco delivery vans? You do seem very possessive of your patch at Hillhead.