Posted on 12/08/2021 08:36
Does anyone know why the position of the pitch peg has been changed? (Is it on all sites?) I don’t really want to look out onto my car from my awning and would much prefer it was behind my caravan with the caravan in the middle of the pitch. It also means the grassed area to the side of the pitch remains unused or a s that the intention?
Posted on 17/08/2021 22:26 by CornersteadyWhat happens on other sites and how they space out their units is really up to the site's owners and what they, and I assume their insurers, think is best to stop the spread of fire.
The club has decided to follow various fire services or local authority advice/guidance/legal requirements of 6m and 3m and uses a peg to ensure it is adhered to. That is the simple reason for the pegs, nothing more
Poster can and do question these 'rules' and/or how outdated they are but at the end of the day it is what the club uses so if you want to stop on a club you have to put up with a peg. Personally I don't think on site many people care?
If one finds the peg system too rigorous or onerous then there are plenty of other sites out there, but probably many/some of them will have the same spacing but done by a different system than a peg. I don't know but some might let you pitch as close as one wishes?
Perhaps other can post about what they have found?
Posted on 18/08/2021 08:31
Well obviously I do care or I wouldn’t have posted! I understand the thinking behind the pitching rules, we aren’t complete novices! Not sure my car being on the periphery of my pitch is going to act as a fire break 🤔 Also until we arrived on site we didn’t know what the pitching arrangements were, how would we? I am going to raise this at some point and find out the thinking behind it, like I say this was a first on a CAMC site for us.
Posted on 17/08/2021 21:33 by redface"Please line van up with its offside rear corner to the peg."
Don't tell anyone but if I miss by 12" or so I usually get out of the car and move the peg to the offside corner.
No complaints from the the warden then!
Posted on 18/08/2021 10:06
Re the peg issue that no one wants to answer.
having recently used an affiliate site, upon asking as to parking to the missing peg, the chap showing my my pitch burst out laughing and said…
‘You’re here to enjoy yourself, pitch anyway you like’
And I’d say @ 50% of the caravans were pitched across the pitches… it seemed the popular choice.
And no caravans were consumed in a fiery apocalypse.
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Posted on 18/08/2021 08:31 by ChrissieRWell obviously I do care or I wouldn’t have posted! I understand the thinking behind the pitching rules, we aren’t complete novices! Not sure my car being on the periphery of my pitch is going to act as a fire break 🤔 Also until we arrived on site we didn’t know what the pitching arrangements were, how would we? I am going to raise this at some point and find out the thinking behind it, like I say this was a first on a CAMC site for us.
Posted on 18/08/2021 10:18
To be fair I was replying to HTM about how other sites use, or do not pegs, and not to your OP.
Not sure my car being on the periphery of my pitch is going to act as a fire break well in either case (car, caravan, awning or caravan, awning, car) your car will be at the periphery of your pitch and the 3m spacing is the fire break?
I don't quite understand what you are so concerned about? It maybe that your preferences cannot be accommodated on this site.
Let us know hat you find out.
Posted on 18/08/2021 10:06 by HarryTheHymerRe the peg issue that no one wants to answer.
having recently used an affiliate site, upon asking as to parking to the missing peg, the chap showing my my pitch burst out laughing and said…
‘You’re here to enjoy yourself, pitch anyway you like’
And I’d say @ 50% of the caravans were pitched across the pitches… it seemed the popular choice.
And no caravans were consumed in a fiery apocalypse.
Posted on 18/08/2021 10:19 by CornersteadySo what peg issue that no one wants to answer?
The club uses pegs, other sites don't, choose whatever method you like by choosing the site?
Posted on 17/08/2021 21:33 by redface"Please line van up with its offside rear corner to the peg."
Don't tell anyone but if I miss by 12" or so I usually get out of the car and move the peg to the offside corner.
No complaints from the the warden then!
Posted on 18/08/2021 12:54 by HarryTheHymerBut Shirley if I book through the CC website to a peg free site, I should park to a peg, after all, I might trigger a fiery conflagration!
Posted on 18/08/2021 13:22
Firstly don't call me Shirley
You cannot book a 'peg free site' from the club's booking system. And if by a peg free site you mean an AS they can only be booked through direct contact with the site. They are not club owned or managed and can do what they want regarding pegs or anything. Their risk not the club's.
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Posted on 18/08/2021 13:22 by CornersteadyFirstly don't call me Shirley
You cannot book a 'peg free site' from the club's booking system. And if by a peg free site you mean an AS they can only be booked through direct contact with the site. They are not club owned or managed and can do what they want regarding pegs or anything. Their risk not the club's.
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