Not very family friendly club

Whisper it quietly, the Other Club do allow you to request adjacent pitches - but it is subject to no one else requiring either of them specifically.

On the odd occasion  that we camp together with our D and SIL and G-kids we use that club rather than this one. On a few  times we have been placed two or three pitches apart, but that was the result of others getting there first and the site being pretty full.

We are motorhome owners, when we find a pitch we like from the empty ones available, we stop and I put our 'motorhome using this pitch' sign next to pitch marker, wife goes back to reception to tell which pitch we are on, while I drive around to the MHSP to fill up with water. 

SO, that pitch is now taken,  this has always worked for us,  a Table, a chair or even a power cable doesnt signify a pitch is taken. And Motorhomers shouldnt rely on them to hold a pitch for them, if they havent already paid for it. THATS what the signs are for.

Its all we have to show others that the pitch is taken....and paid for, while we are offsite enjoying our holiday.

I Have seen many nasty confrontations on privately run sites over the years, when pitches have been stolen by new arrivals  not respecting an already occupied pitch, while the campervan or motorhome are out for the day.

Thankfully, never on a CMC site, one of the reasons i am a member.

As for the original poster, if you want to pitch together, arrive together, early, or book on a private site or a CL.

As the club has a 'Much Loved'  first come first served allocation system for pitches, and long may it remain so.

Why not family friendly club just cos you don't get your own way?

Each site has a finite number of pitches and thats it.  If you can't pitch together tell the children to walk around other folks pitches, not through them, to visit each other. Relax and enjoy your holiday

yes, plus one. In package holidays we request rooms close together, sometimes we get them sometimes we don't, still manage to have  a good holiday either way.

As far as disabled pitches are concerned I think these are more allocated than reserved. You don't have a choice, you have to take that allocated to you. I think they are allocated by site staff on the morning of arrival and 'coned' as close to the toilets as possible. That seems fair to me.

And that is now being "abused " by some who do not want to be far from the facilities (as advised in conversation with site staff recently)

You do not have to take any pitch reserved for you Micky. You are still free to choose from any available pitch. The same applies to any pitch reserved for a larger outfit if another is suitable. It simply means that there is at least one that is likely to be suitable. 

How can they know that in view of the fact that disabilities are not always visible? 

Because some of the "members" are quite open about it 

So your mates have informed head office of this so the fact can be recorded against the relevant membership numbers, have they?

There again, perhaps the members are joking of maybe someone's just winding you up, JV.

The club could always enforce a rule concerning the showing of a blue badge, or other documentation, if there is a serious abuse of the system.