Are CLs strictly for 5 caravans

Nothing to stop them having more than 5 vans if the aquire planning permission but no, these people want to take advantage of the excemption certificate and then flout the rules to the detriment of the CL owners who abide by the rules and the members who arrive on a CL expecting to get what they have paid for ie.to be one of a maximum of five.

As I made a point earlier on the CL Closures post, perhaps one of the reasons for a number closing down from lack of visitor is that certain others close by are flouting the rules and hence robbing them of customers.

Crikey, it sounds as though having more than 5 vans on a CL is fairly commonplace, then......?

Hi , I only tend to use CLs , more than five vans can cause a problem .

A few years back before I became self sufficient with cassette loo and seprate shower I always choose CLs that had a shower and a Loo 

When we arrived on a cl in Wales ,  we made the five, and for two days all was fine , then 3 more vans arrived , we we asked to bunch up more ! To make more room , each of the three vans had four campers so with an extra 12 people shower use became difficult , the meadow was really only suitable for 5 vans and thats why we chose it , a couple of us members spoke to the farmer owner and refused to move , so he reluctantly opened another field , however this did not releve the shower , loo over crowding for  this reason I believe five should mean five .

The five 'van limit is a condition of the granting of permission by the Local Authority under the exemption for members of a caravaning club that exists in what was the "Town and Country Planning Act". 

It is not set by the site owner or the Caravan Club. So it is much the same as your neighbour building a four storey extension looking over your garden and saying "Oh - I have a big garden, it does not matter".

 

Crikey, it sounds as though having more than 5 vans on a CL is fairly commonplace, then......?

Not commonplace, Ian, but certainly there are more & more doing it, unfortunately.

Exceeding the 5 van limit may also invalidate their insurance policies... as well as planning exemptions.

If the caravan owner's insurance has a restrictive clause about "while sited on a licensed site" that insurance also could be invalidted by more than 5 outfits being present.

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Some say that I am confused; other say permanently so .  But what is confusing about the following? .

This morning we visited NT Stourhead, it is not too far from where we live and just a nice place to visit.  They have recently moved and upgraded their CL.  Nice position lovely surroundings, etc.

I ask how much per night and was told NT members £16.50, CC Ltd. members £16.50, but if you are a member of both organisations £13.50.  Now, I thought CL were restricted to CC Ltd members only.  

Are any of you CL aficionados able to explain the odd pricing and strange membership rules bearing in mind that even if you are not a member of either organisation you can still use NT Stourhead CL.

You should have reported this to the CC, I have asked them for a response.Are you sure it is still a CL.CL's are for members only,It sounds as though they might have turned it into a commercial site.