Awning rules
We have visited 5 different sites since reopening and at every one seen mostly motorhomes on non awning pitches using roll out awnings. Have not yet seen any with sides fitted so maybe people think this is ok. I am not opposed to this practice as I think the latest pitch designations are in many cases OTT. What I want to know is if this practice has been "allowed" and the site managers have been told to turn a blind eye,if so I will look at joining this set when we can't get an awning pitch but would use a roll out awning.
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Roll out canopies on MHs are allowed on non-awning pitches providing the space requirements are maintained. Sometimes they may only be able to be partially unrolled and sometimes wardens ask for them to be retracted at night.
Don't forget that MHs do not often have cars on pitch which is why they often have room for the canopy.
There's no need to feel you're missing out or that wardens are turning a blind eye.
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Some pitches that are now non awning were before the guidelines for fire regs were ammended a few years ago awning pitches so it may be with these days of litigation lawyer's .the clubs and some commercial companies are looking to not get court
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Thank you Jill for your clear print out of the rules about 3 metre spacing, but to be frank I wouldn't go to a campsite where there is another caravan or Motorhome or awning as close as that. It would be like having neighbours parked at the other end of my sitting room at home. Fire officers may be satisfied with a 3 metre gap but I want much more space than that. It's a long time since I went to a Club site and I hadn't realised outfits were so close together these days. Thank you for reminding me.
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It seems motorhomers can't win. If we book an awning pitch we get accused of taking up a pitch that a caravan and awning could use. If we book a none awning pitch and use a roll out canopy (which under no stretch of the imagination can be classed as an awning) we get criticised for that. We tend only to use our canopy as a sun shade (although in Innsbruck we did use it as a rain shade!) and we wind it in at night, no hassle whatsoever.
David
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Probably because the pitch, or more importantly, the space between pitches won’t allow for car, caravan and awning but will take a MH with variably extending canopy. I don’t see any confusion at all.
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We solved all the hassle by mainly using CLs. Folks are a lot less judgemental and obsessed by what others do on CLs......😂
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I didn’t think TDA was pointing the finger at anyone in particular...🤷🏻♂️
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Indeed, not at you personally Wedgy. 😁It’s just that a lot of questions are often asked around what folks do and don’t do on Club Sites.
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Today we arrived at Great Yarmouth Racecourse site. ( we should have been by Lake Annecy but ...) and the sun was so hot that we had to roll out our Fiamma 'canopy' and attach our sun blind! We're on a white post pitch and so have rolled it all up and in for the night.
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White peg - that’s with awning so you'll not cause upset there, CnC. 😄
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Try laying off the baked beans👍🏻
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Often, it's not the size of the gravelled area but the width of that grass finger in between pitches which determines if it's a blue or white peg pitch. I've seen grass fingers in excess of three yards wide and others as little as a foot.
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Hi, it is ten years since we were wardens and we were advised that an awning pitch could accommodate 3 things in 8 metres
caravan/motorhome
car
awning
a non awning pitch could accommodate 2 things in 5 metres
caravan/motorhome
car OR awning of 2 metres or less.
It makes sense, leaving a safe distance of at least 3 metres.But those rules may have been superseded, and the non awning pitch name is misleading, perhaps they should be called 3 element pitch or two element pitch?
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I think you have to be careful what you consider an awning. To me an awning is an enclosed unit designed to be up for the length of your stay. These are clearly not allowed on a non awning pitch. A roll out canopy is just that a canopy which can be retracted in minutes.
It might make things clearer if the Club actually insisted that canopies were retracted at night.
David
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