Distance between pitches

I think you may have misunderstood. It’s not 3m between pitches but the fire gap is measured between outfits as the site rules describe.

"To avoid the spread of fire, there must be at least 6 metres spacing between facing walls of adjacent caravans, motorhomes or trailer tents and a minimum clear space of 3 metres between adjoining cars/awnings/tents in any direction."

It pays to speak to the wardens if you think the spacing rule has been breached.

Sally, I sympathise. Three metres to a neighbouring awning is ridiculously close. No one would want me so close to them so I took pity on them years ago and went elsewhere. 

I’ve not seen any problems on HS pitches. However, some of the grass awning pitches at Tewkesbury are so tight on spacing, that unless everybody is very accurately pitched, the 3 metres would be compromised.

Yet you were recently posting a photograph of service station overnight area where you could almost touch the next outfit,  well certainly less than 3m anyway, and you sort of indicated that the club should follow that example but would be reluctant?

Examples Sally? No but then I only use HS and SP. 

I wonder if sites being busier this year is creating the impression of tighter pitch spacing? 🤔

I think it's a combination of sites being busier and incorrect pitching (ie) parking on the 'wrong' side of the peg .......  Twice this year, we've had to ask people to pitch correctly.  It seems that some people either can't be bothered to look at the pitching instructions given on arrival, or they simply couldn't care less!  We were told to eff off by one motorhomer when we politely asked him to pitch correctly 

If the information I have been given is correct it seems that the "temporary "? New members who have joined because they have not been able to have ,their usual hotel overseas holidays  are ,under the impression that having to look out for others , as with the increase in non arrivals also it seems attributed., to the same "members"? that they do not need to comply

I have seen a notice on cc sites this year trying to give advise to new members?,  

The last paragraph. was interesting as it states, that club sites have a quiet period between 2200 hrs and I think 0700hrs?

Well that's interesting JVB .. because the very same motorhomer who told us to eff off was playing very loud (what I would call club) music until well after midnight!  Fortunately, they left the next day  

Hopefully, next year they'll  be able to have their 'usual' holiday in Ibiza or some such place and leave the rest of us in peace!

Admittedly it was Bristol, which always had a bit of a problem with pitch separation due to the lack of any indication of demarcation, but on my last visit in July I saw some quite astonishing examples of bad pitch separation. I photographed one example but I won't post it here to protect the owners' privacies.

However, over the last year or so, I too, like the OP, have seen increasing incidences of bad pitching and poor car parking. 

At Ayr in September one caravan had two cars on the pitch. He had no awning such that, had the caravan been correctly sited, there could have been a car either side of the van. As it was, he had pitched with the peg a couple of feet inwards from the corner. Hence one car had to be parked laterally at the front of the van and was partly on the road. Other outfits had to squeeze by and in some cases drive on the grass opposite. 

Also at Ayr a motorhome had parked completely the wrong side of the peg.

I have also seen awnings creeping onto the grass between pitches. I did wonder if they were getting bigger - but i have no clear evidence for this.

What always gets to me is that site manages rarely seem to do anything about these issues.

I won't challenge the perpetrators of these misdemeanours. To so invites confrontation (as proven by one of the comments above), and I won't get involved. Contrary, however, to  the opinion often expressed in this place, I do not believe that my silence should invalidate my right to express my irritation here or on site reviews.