Lighting on a caravan site
We are staying in a site and there is no lighting of the roads or footpaths ie to get to the toilet block you need a torch.Is this legal?
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It is not illegal. I prefer such a situation as long as there is light at the toilet block and entrance. We always have a torch available. Not likely to go to the toilet block in the dark at night but might on a winter's morning to shower.
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It could be argued that there is a potential health and safety issue; and I'm sure that there are those that will. Personally I prefer a dark site, but they are very hard to find.
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Get a torch. Is self-reliance a lost art these days?
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I have never been on a site where I have felt a torch was needed to get to the toilet block. I generally find that my eyes adjust to the dark in a few moments and I can see well enough to walk around the site. However, we carry two torches in case we actually need to do anything outside in the dark or are going off site on foot. Even then although we take them we rarely use them.
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I have never been on a site where I have felt a torch was needed to get to the toilet block.
Nor have I but I have been on sites where there is a much darker area due to trees probably and a pothole or trip hazard might not be seen when coming out of a lighter area.
It could be argued that bo lighting is better than incomplete lighting in that it is (or should be) obvious that some might require a torch.
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To some extent no lighting is better than odd lights. You can use a torch, or let your eyes adapt. All odd lights do is illuminate a small area and ruin your night vision. Having said that until I had my cataract done I was blind as a bat without glasses anyway.😂
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Off topic. A few years ago I went away with just one set of office glasses which I tend to wear in the caravan and in shops etc. They were faulty in that the left lens kept dropping out of the frame (my left eye is very weak and my right eye has lost most of its area of vision) and I was stuck with them for 6 weeks.
Dropped out on gravel pitch and I had to guard the spot until OH came back from the showers to find it. Lost it under a drinks cooler display in a supermarket and had to get staff to move display, lost it several times in caravan. Very difficult to replace screws and tighten when you can't see. Sorted it with loctite until I had them replaced. Walking to shower block in the dark at New England Bay, no torch when lens dropped out. I placed a 50p piece on the ground where I was stood and went back to caravan for torch and distance glasses!
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can we know which site it is? I have used a lot of club sites and usually there is sufficient lighting, most EHU bollards light up?
Anyway the kids always used to find it fun to carry torches when they were younger
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Yesterday I was looking in the site directory and I noticed a comment for one site that there was little in the way of site lighting and a torch was recommended. Generally I find Club sites OK with sufficient lighting. I am always a bit puzzled why the main source of lighting is the electric bollards which are always at the back of the units and nowhere near the road! Been on a couple of C&CC sites where it has been darker than I would have liked but I do have my trusty Maglight!
David
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This is where two schools of thought collide.
I am on a Club Site, the Club Site should provide for my every requirement, and it will be their fault if I get hurt, despite me not using common sense, and I will sue them for all I can get. I rely to a great extent on others to keep me safe.
I am having a bit of an outdoorsy type adventure. It will be dark, I may need to use the loo metres away and there could be some hazards such as steps, bushes, other visitors. Therefore I will use my common sense and take a torch. My own common sense will help me keep safe. We might even get a power cut, and here my common sense will pay extra dividends, I am a well prepared individual.
choose an option.....
😂😂😂
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it is after a campsite, part of the charm of carvaning/MHing is that sense of being outdoors and adventure, and camping in the old sense of the word, even if we do have better 'sheltering' than a tent.
Anyone else get that nice feeling when it's raining in the night and the noise it makes on your roof?
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Thank you everyone for your replies much appreciated.
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We are just back from a 10 night stay on a CL..... not a light to be seen on site & the village where it is , just one..... yes one road sign lit.
Not one street light all through the village...... lovely.
GET yourself a torch🔦.... & live on the wild side.
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Eat more carrots.
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Head torch ,the amount of times i used to forget to empty loo !!
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We are still on Dartmoor. Not a single light to be seen where we are. Seen a few good night skies, but either has clouded over or pesky moon has been too bright! Brilliant though, just as nature intended😁
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I think lighting of footpaths falls within individual council's who issue licences to operate.
Some sites may have light restrictions because of the light pollution for example.
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We stayed on the affiliated site just outside Hereford last October (can’t remember its name). It was clearly stated on their information that you need to take a torch because, due to being in an area of dark skies, there was no lighting on site (except inside the facilities blocks). Not a problem for us.
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Club sites do vary quite a bit but I get the impression that they are cutting back on lighting. Once you realise that lighting can be very limited, then for further bookings you know what to expect and if you cannot accept it then you have to look elsewhere for your pitch.
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"Club sites do vary quite a bit but I get the impression that they are cutting back on lighting."
Has anyone been to Knaresborough site. It's a lovely site but at night there are so many lights it looks like an airport landing strip. Totally OTT The toilet block looked like something out of Close Encounters of The Third Kind.
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Can you do a model of it, let's say, out of mashed potatoes?
You could use Yorkshire puds as UFO's.
Which reminds me, I did the shopping t'other weekend.Michelle Says whilst at caravan fridge, "Where are the onion rings"?.
Holding up a packet of Yorkshire puds. In my defence, if you had as little time as last Saturday for doing Supermarket sweep, you too would have thought the picture on the bag to be onion rings too! Wouldnt yeah? Please.
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