Yet Another Trial

Has anything changed? You’ve always been able to park either way around providing the fire spacing was maintained. The diagrams on your site plan are examples of pitching between the pegs and it all looks straightforward to me.

When the first pitch to the off centre peg came in with its strict car+caravan+awning rule it rather upset some who wanted the freedom to pitch caravan+awning+car  and there were many posts on here on about that lack of freedom.

In fact my preferred way till then was caravan awning then car but as I wanted to use club sites I just accepted it and it never spoilt my time away.

Now it appears that is now possible on certain campsites again so surely it's a good move. If one wants to pitch the 'old way' it's still possible so there's little if anything to complain about.

I assume it is only on those sites where the 6m rule between adjacent walls of the caravan/MH is possible.

A good decision by the club in my view

Perhaps with a motorhome its a bit easier as we only use the wind out Fiamma during the day and put it in at night and we have no second vehicle so the two peg system for us is easy. It should also be fairly fool proof? I don't think I have every arrived at a Club site without the pitching system being explained, often in a bit too much detail Now having said that I have still seen unit parked on the wrong side of the peg when there was only a single peg. It is very difficult to mis-park with the two peg system. As I have often mentioned before I think when you do get issues its because the person driving and parking the vehicle has not been into the office and its often debateable whether person who has been in the office relays the information to the driver?

David

I think it was the Wardens at Sandringham that explained that these new systems were to accommodate people with increasingly larger (wider) awnings.  Can someone tell me how that works.  Ok - so it may give you more room to erect the awning - but where does the car go?

The space on the pitch remains the same, however you place the various 'bits'! I must admit, I was even more confused - which isn't difficult, these days.

Does this new system apply to all sites or is the ‘trial’ only on a few, if so which? I think the main issue are those campervan tunnel like drive-away awnings. They can take up much more width space than ordinary caravan awnings causing some confusion and complication. 
Not all in between pitch grass fingers are three metres in my experience, that must be taken into account. There are always those few sites where no system can be universally applied to all pitches, are they ‘exempt’?

I am also confused, is the OP saying, if your van is small enough you can now park sideways?

peedee

I suppose it will work well  for lone Motorhomes with large drive away awnings and connecting tunnel. However, as you say, I can’t see how it works for a caravan / large awning unless the pitch is deep enough to put the car across the front.

You could before, providing the warden agreed the spacing was sufficient.

AHa!, do I detect a faint whiff of sulphur  in the air as the Devil’s Advocate arises from the flaming fires of Hades? Thankyou Tinwheeler for clarifying the point I failed to do, ie. “Has anything changed? You’ve always been able to park either way around…..”

I suppose at least this has kept the club Graphic Designers and Printers gainfully employed for the moment pushing out the latest guideline leaflet.

You are welcome but there’s no devil's advocate at work and I'm not in Hades. I’m simply happy to help when there appears to be ambiguity.