White peg position

This club do not own many sites although it has recently increased with several purchases most club sites are leased with what the owner requested they adhere to

"...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’..."

Come off it, Harry - that never actually happened, did it?   (But I don't blame you for using a bit of poetic licence to back up your argument!  )

But I'm a bit confused by your criticism of the club's 6m rule - are you saying folk should be allowed to pitch closer than that? I thought the general concensus was that more space between units was desirable, not less. I keep reading complaints about the club squeezing every inch of soil to provide as many pitches as possible ("packed in like sardines" if I remember correctly!)

Apart from rather in-appropriate reference at this time of year Harry, that is really irrelevant. Other sites and their insurers can decide what the risk is and what is their way of reducing that risk.

The club has chosen to follow various guidelines from authorities such as the Fire Services and decided that the 6/3 m rule is the one the the club will follow. That is really the end of it. I can't see the club opting to ignore 'official' advice, and it hasn't on the new builds recently.

If one chooses to use a club site, and it is voluntary remember, then one abides by the current system. And yes sadly there have been fires on club sites.

But if you or anyone feels that they don't like the system, want to be closer together on pitches then find a site to suit your tastes?  

Makes me wonder if he has ever stayed on a CAMC or an Affiliated site M. I’m unsure why anyone would advocate a spacing of less than 6 metres, that’s plenty close enough. As you mention it is more normal on CT for the CC to be accused of cramming too many vans in. Perhaps it’s just that Harry wants to pitch any which way round and even have adjoining awnings.

 Most modern caravans in the past were 7\ft 6inches so another 6inches will make a massive problem

And no caravans were consumed in a fiery apocalypse.

So were there some on fire then but it did not spread to others?

Or was the hypothesis not tested because there was no conflagration?

Evening

Wind ups and joking aside and I don't want to be completely negative but I have unfortunately witnessed a caravan fire, a scary experience that's I'll say and one I never want to witness again.

I also have photo evidence of an early hours motorhome fire (brand new caused by an electrical fault) at one of our sites. The couple escaped in just their nightwear and lost everything, van burnt to chassis in 5 minutes. Even with 6 meter spacing the radiated heat damaged the adjoining outfits. Again, scary. On all our sites our risk assessment dictates 6 meter spacing between facing walls of outfits, if it was my own personal site it would be double at least. 

JK

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In 2016 a Somerset dealership went up in flames, vans are very flimsy and fire spreads quickly.

And yet, Germany with its extremely high fire safety standards has no such ‘6m rule’ on its 9,000 campsites with many millions of campers. Neither does most of the developed world.

can you show me any evidence Continental campsites are more dangerous and fireswept?