Should the Club put it's foot down?

faffing or not, when using electric abroad i dont mind the process as its well managed and causes no inconvenience due to simple modern technology.....oh and an office thats there to serve customers, not clean the toilets.

How divine. As long as you are happy that's fine. I also understand that in Spain gas is far cheaper. Different strokes for different folks

"On another note. Reading the OP I do wonder how many actually heat awnings (what percentage of site users.) I wouldn't know who was using a heater in their awning so how do we assume they are?"

Fair point, Brue. Has the OP, or anyone, actually made a study of this? No doubt a few people use awning heaters but, in reality, we haven’t a clue how many do and it might be a very small number in which case this could all be a storm in a teacup.

Be nice to hear from the OP again.

We have seen the practice of heating an empty awning but not often. I suppose the first question is how many erect awnings in the first place. 

I have water meter, gas meter and electric meter and never need reading as all sent via Wifi so could easily be done on pitches and sent to the office via there own wifi network.

Never needs reading but does need paying presumably. 

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so could easily be done on pitches and sent to the office via there own wifi network.

this is exactly what happens on the sites i have used in Spain where electricity is metered, and as BB states it is a very easy process to pay as you leave, in fact my OH normally goes to office once i have unhooked the electric and i carry on hitching up , I meet her at the gate, she jumps in and off we go, simple. As stated previously, office can see in an instant how much you owe at any given time.

Agree. We are firmly in the turn them off at night camp. But then we always carry a torch and are happy taking full responsibility for our safety where we can. Bolton Abbey ablutions block was lit up like a Christmas Tree all night last visit, but probably all LEDs. I think the Estate has a lot of say how things are done there, for example there’s a two hour gap between departures and arrivals, 11am off, no arrivals before 1pm. 

As stated previously, office can see in an instant how much you owe at any given time.

Provided that there is somebody in the office to pay 

But the point is, Alan, that it would be of use to those who don't require EHU, in the same way that serviced pitches are of no interest to us, but some do make use of them. So if, say 10% of pitches were made non EHU (or EHU optional) it would satisfy those for whom that's desirable.

(I have to say, though, that when we have used C&CC sites where the option is available the numbers I've seen not hooked up could be counted on the fingers of less than two hands! )