Cars per pitch
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"Towcars would be parked in the site car park."
Going to need a bloomin' big car park for that to happen though!
Think they'd have to vastly reduce the number of pitches and then vastly increase the prices. Totally impractical (IMHO!)
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Just out of interest-where do these 'fire regs/rules' actually come from? Are they issued from UK authorities, fire depts, European detectives or from the CC?. I ask because if a Caravan site was built to regs from scratch it'd be a clearly sanitised & 'combustibles'
free environment. The hedges would have to be dropped due to being flammable & capable of aiding fire spread
. Safe but not very easy on the
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I think you've answered your own question BB, the idea is to stop fire spreading to the next pitch. It is totally nonsense to have 3m between everything on a single pitch.
Why, 'totally nonsense' when then idea of the rule is to contain fire (wherever it starts)....
Kennine's point is totally sensible....if there were only one 'item' (caravan/MH) on a pitch (plus awning) then spacing would be far better....its all the cars all over the place that mean we end up with a compromise (non) solution.
its incredibly naive to think that a fire starting in a car on your pitch is 'somehow' a nil risk to you and your family, whereas the risk to the neighbours' family is seen as sufficient to ensure you keep three metres away....
it is total nonsense as you would have to re-shape all sites on the network, as you well know
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Corners, that is my beef with rules/regs/laws. If this was about 'saving lives' or potential danger it would not carry a caveat of-'unless it costs a lot of money to be safe & save lives'. This is not me popping at individuals or CC, it's me popping at how
ludicrous we Humans are when it comes to making laws/rules. Grey areas are inherently danger zones, with potential life threatening scenarios it's black or white-no compromise.0 -
I agree with you Rocky, but all human work, play, transport, even club sites...has a risk involved to that activity. We need that compromise in order for those activities to happen. We either have sites as they are or spend a lot of money in making them totally safe to the point where they are too expensive or there are fewer pitches. Yes park all the cars in one car park (isn't that dangerous as well? all those highly flamable cars close together - not your point I know)) but that means new car parks which will cost money as well as taking space taken from what is there at present, hence fewer pitches and higher prices, doesn't it?.
This applies to most things, work, transport, driving .... All you can do is minimise the risks as far as possible and then you (one) decides if that risk is acceptable. I think having a second car on my pitch is an acceptable risk to me and my family. The 3m rule a satisfactory compromise on risk v enough pitches.
You have a more than avarage dangerous job, yet you accept the risks, the safest thing would be not to do it?
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Because I am retired and my other half is a bit younger and still at work, I often pitch mid week and my better half comes up on a Friday and stays until Sunday.
We just ask the warden/CL owner where the second car should be parked and do what they say.
Job done, never had the slightest problem.
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Same here Fysh, you just ask at reception what is best and get on with it.
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Much depends on the site, but as a general rukle I do not like the pitching areas to be infested with cars.
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Unless it's a Vauxhall Zafira, then they can be parked as far away from everything
and certain mobile phones.
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And then we have the m/van towing a trailer loaded with a car ? Which is the "extra" to stay on the pitch ? And which goes in the carpark
actually that was answered by the club/wardens, such a car goes on the pitch at NO extra cost I seem to remember, oh and as close as you like to the MH, perhaps they take more risks when its suits them than caravaners
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And should the cars in the car park be 3m apart?
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And should the cars in the car park be 3m apart?
of course, otherwise they might as well be on the pitch?
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