CL Hardstandings

Have you made this suggestion to the CC? Can see issues as there are so many types of hard standings and catagorising them could be problematical or wordy.

The correct definition maybe should be " Can you enter the field and park your van while remaining on hard roads and hard standings".    That is the sort of site I keep and want to visit, not park the van in the middle of a field on two slabs.

David   www.perthshirecl.co.uk

The correct definition maybe should be " Can you enter the field and park your van while remaining on hard roads and hard standings".    That is the sort of site I keep and want to visit, not park the van in the middle of a field on two slabs.

David   www.perthshirecl.co.uk

Same here, I hate it when you are expected to drive over grass to get to a H/S, what's the point. Some club sites are just as guilty though have been on a  few that you have to do that.

The correct definition maybe should be " Can you enter the field and park your van while remaining on hard roads and hard standings".    That is the sort of site I keep and want to visit, not park the van in the middle of a field on two slabs.

David   www.perthshirecl.co.uk

Time to update your website David,

Quote: our 2011 prices are £12 a night ............... 

Thanks DaveFL2, Time flies when you are having fun !!

Our CL has hardstandings and we are open all year round.

To complicate the description of hard-standings, we have 'grassed hardstandings'.  These hard-standings have a proper foundation but are subtly grassed-over to maintain the rural nature of the CL.

- These have a compacted-stone foundation.
- This is covered with a weed-proof membrane.
- We then covered the membrane with a purpose-made plastic mesh (40mm thick) called EcoGrid.
- We filled the EcoGrid with soil and sowed grass seed.
- As these blend-in with the rest of the grass, we  mark the corners of the EcoGrid using 6 ft high bird-feeder hooks.

Guests drive straight off our tarmac drive onto the hardstandings.  

They work well - we had large triple-axle motor home using one this weekend.

As a further complication to the description, when the ground is dry and firm, we don't insist that guests use these hardstanding, and many guests prefer to site themselves on non-reinforced grass.  Our CL is large enough to offer that element of choice.

Ian Kelly

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It's a pity that CC don't use a similar method. Perhaps people wouldn't then be so paranoid about getting HS and there wouldn't be so much of a car park feel to club sites.

If CL's become "all singing all dancing" camping sites, the beauty. of CL caravanning will be destroyed.

CL's are unique as they provide a natural environment in rural unspoilt pictuesque areas.

All that is required is a camping field .  A water supply Somewhere to dump grey and black waste and five electric bollards.

Anybody wanting facilities blocks, cafes  and tarmac all over the place should IMO  leave CLs to those who enjoy country living in a natural environment and use club sites instead.

K

I guess CL's are part way to supplying other needs than the basics as a continuing diversifying. On quite a lot of CL's I've used I've had-Eggs, sandwiches, fruit, scones, pies all supplied by the Owners & bought by me. Long may it continue as I see it as a mutual benefit

Our CL is on a very sandy free draining soil, even when there has been heavey rain it remains dry, there may be some run off to one corner, but that soon goes. I see no piont in putting in hard standings but some still instist , so an old paved track on part of the site I now deem as a hard standing, it keeps the motorhomes happy even when they don't use it.