Motorhome pitching
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Probably treated differently by Insurance companies ,because they are not permanent pitches.
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I fully understand the need for fire breaks but when pitching as required next to the post it is impossible with a motorhome to use the drive away awning as it would overlap the pitch. A motorhome with drive away awning usually forms a T shape as the awning is at right angles to the motorhome whereas a caravan awning runs parallel to the van. So even though the car, caravan, awning setup is wider that the motorhome awning set up the caravan outfit is ok to pitch but the motorhome outfit can't. I think this is a problem that needs to be addressed.
I would also add when looking through the club magazine and on the app I often see pictures of outfits that are pitched on the side of the pitch to accommodate an awning but ask some of the wardens if you can pitch slightly to one side to accommodate an awning and the reply is "that's more than my jobs worth"
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It must depend a lot on the individual pitch, some have a wide grass strip between the hardstandings, so much easier to fit on a wider awning without having to move further to the left (as viewed from the road).
Where pitces are at minimum spacing, moving your MH more to the left would bring it too close to the unit on that side of you.
There are some pitches where the peg is in the LH corner, Cirencester has some such pitches , in this case the pitces are generally too narrow to take car/caravan/awning, so if you are using an awning the car has to go across the front parallel to the road.
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I agree that there are pitches on some sites that would suit but not many of them. If when booking a pitch you could state the dimensions of your unit (as on forest sites). Then perhaps a suitable pitch could be reserved. For myself I wouldn't mind paying a deposit for this service. This would save the disappointment of arriving on site and not being able to pitch.
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Just purchased a motor home,and just this minute joined CC,and reading with interest the which way to a post rule, can I ask what happens when a foreign motor home that has its door on the offside of the vehicle, how can you erect a drive away awning and point your vehicle in a desired direction?
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Mick, you can park either way - with the nearside front corner to the peg or the offside rear corner to the peg, irrespective of which side your habitation door is. We often pitch nose in as our lounge area is at the rear of the van.
The spacing required is 6m between facing walls of cvans/MHs and 3m between auxilliary equipment - ie awnings/cars.
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Not my opinion at all, but site rules - when you arrive on site, you will be given a site plan which includes a diagram showing how to pitch.
Looking from the front of the pitch your caravan or motorhome goes next to and to the right of the peg and the awning goes to the right of that.
This automatically means that 'european' vans must go nose in if they have an awning.
Of course, if you don't have an awning, you could go either way round.
This is also shown on the Club web site. All very clear.
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Ian, it has been made clear by site staff on this very forum a number of times that on CC sites (with possibly the exclusion of Sandringham) it is permissible to pitch either nose in or nose out. In fact it is a common event with motorhomes to use the fall on the pitch to suit there levelling on some sites or their particular habitation layout.
I do not know why you continue to peddle this fallacy Ian. I know that you would prefer it otherwise but it simply is not.
Nor is the moon made up of Wensleydale cheese no matter what impression you may have gathered from Wallace and Grommet's trip to the moon. That too was fantasy
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But as a regular user of club sites, Ian, you'll know that it is just an illustration of the fact that your van should be in the centre of the pitch with the awning on ne side and the car on the other. As far as I'm aware this is the widely accepted interpretation on most sites.
But I'm curious as to why you'd be happy for a van without an awning to pitch nose in, so your neighbours are still entering and leaving the van (and possibly sitting out on the pitch for a drink and a meal) right next to your door - I'd have thought an awning would provide you with more privacy if that's your concern.
Also, I wonder why you seem so fixated on sticking to what you see as the letter of this law when you take exactly the opposite view to the rule regarding leaving times as stated on age 675 of the current handbook?
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I suggest that you all take a look at the diagram given to you on site - it is abundantly clear. The same diagrams appear on the Club's web site.
I don't make the rules, I'm just pointing out what the Club requires.
If you don't like the rules, go elsewhere (as some would say
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and he nicely refuses to state where:
The same diagrams appear on the Club's web site.
As Ian well knows, and for the benefit of any new members who may take Ian's wish list as the truth, on the majority of club sites (I think there is a couple out of over 200 where this doesn't apply) there are four pitching diagrams available when you ask the wardens. One as Ian suggest (so he's telling a half of the facts) car, van/MH. awning. Then there is one if you go nose in, awning, van, car. There are two more that cater for those outfits with the door on the offside, again they can go reverse or nose and show awning on the door side.
But as always with club sites ask the wardens. On site like Troutbeck Head you are actually reminded that you can go nose in to take full advantage of the views. And you'll see some do and some don't leading to awning to awning.
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Perhaps Ian is refering to the site information that we used to in a former incarnation of our Club be able to download for each site? I seem to recall such a diagram tucked into the corner of a site plan.
On a recent visit to the English Lakes I was on a terraced site with magnificent views over the lake and the hills beyond, with no pitching restrictions as it was a private site. No less than four caravans (both trailer and motor) came and went beside us that ended up with the toilet window facing the view and the occupants sitting gazing at a retaining wall. I could list the reasons I was given when I asked, but for the sake of brevity I'll lump them together as "incompetence" in handling their equipment.
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I liked the Club more when you could pitch sideways as well..... those were the days!
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Just to add.......the "four pitching diagrams" is a fallacy. This is something that one member says that they once saw on one site. They don't exist, I'm afraid.
Oh, and people please stop talking about me in the third person....it's very rude.
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When one talks to a person Ian it is generally first person. When one talks about somebody who appears to be absent third person is the normal mode of speech.
AS for the 'four diagrams' I could care less. I refer to what has been written by CC staff on this forum Ian.
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Could this be the diagram to which Ian refers - in the top right corner?
Why he has not put a link to the diagram he refers to onto the thread is beyond me. Took me only half a minute of my valuable time.
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There is a site in the Cotswolds we use that has two Hard standing and two maybe three?grass pitches that have great views when pitched nose in to the peg and are quite often like that, also have just thought of a racecourse site in the Cotswolds that has some pitches the same,which the wardens advise to do to get a lovely view
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Now it gets complicated. The lochside pitches at Bunree are non-awning! I guess it is so that more members cann get the uninterupted view.
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