Random people walking over others' pitches
Is it just me or is anyone else noticing the amount of people who feel its ok to walk behind your caravan or alongside to take a shortcut ie to the water points, there are paths to follow but clearly they feel the need to cut through hedges etc the worst I have seen is at Chester fair oaks this week.
I am sorry to say it but most of the culprits are the motor home owners with there water bottles topping up there water we have a nervous dog who is always tied up and protected by windbreaker or awning but when you step out of your awning and bump in to the motorhome guy next to you nipping through the hedge for water it gets a bit trying and upsetting for the dog, especially when there is a path 30 yards further up clearly for that purpose.
Its so bad at Chester there are numerous gaps in the hedges where people have basically burst through and created new shortcuts
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Sorry it was trying and upsetting for your dog, but looking at the layout plan for that site it would have been better for you to pitch around the perimeter rather than in the centre.
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A topic which often comes up on this forum. It was covered here recently at length. https://www.caravanclub.co.uk/club-together/discussions/sites-touring/uk-sites-touring/why-do-people-walk-across-other-peoples-pitch/ By human nature I expect people will always seek out the shortest route between two points. Sometimes site design is such that it encourages people to take short cuts. If people are actually forcing their way through hedges perhaps you need to highlight it to the wardens?
David
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Hi there is a perimeter there is a hedge! this was the only pitch we could get as the sight was very busy on arrival, in fact as I finished writing this post I just watched the motorhome guy across from me walk right past my car through the hedge between 2 other caravans and up to the water tap and subsequently back with his 5 litre can of water to top up.
No matter where you park this shouldn't happen
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On the site we have just left we were on a hardstand that was separated from a footpath by a grass strip, on the route from the office complex , but the extra two steps to the footpath was two far for some who would (until i moved the car)cut across in front of our c/van over the hardstand
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No need to be sorry, I just believe that many of these offenders, motorhomers or otherwise, are very new to our pastime and don’t understand the etiquette of us oldies. At the moment some all over our lives don’t understand 2m let alone pitch ownership and what is considered common and what is not. Is the middle of that grass finger shrouded in ‘law’ as out of bounds to all others or it’s use by others just what we consider plain bad manners.
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Why put the blame for other people's inconsiderate actions on the OP?
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I was at Maragowan (Kilin) last week. Our pitch backed onto the river. Anyone who knows the site will be aware of a wide grass verge along the river behind several pitches. The only way to to access that area was to walk through the vans. Our pitch wasn't to bad but some were more unlucky. The majority of users were dog walkers who thought it a dog walk. It was not but that's another story
So how does rule 3D cover this. At present everyone on the site I'm on are walking past the front of my van on the roadway. They can be a close as 1 metre. That can be a lot closer than walking across the edge of the pitch.
So what defines a pitch. On hard standing is it the very area covered by the surface or does it include the grass apron in between. I would take the grass apron as no mans land.
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There are good reasons to go to the Maragowan site, but privacy is not one of them. It’s an open plan, communal area with shared space for everyone. If it means cutting between these outfits in this photo to get to the river bank, then that’s how it will happen
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Crikey, what an unappealing Site☹️ About as grim and unattractive as you could get from that photo.
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Looks more like a storage unit than a site. Not for us.
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The view wouldn't be too bad without the vans/motor homes.
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From memory, and I may be wrong, I don't think those are the pitches next to the river? I don't know why ET chose that one (did you take it ET?) as the ones on the website are much better and give a better idea of the site.
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I’ve just realised where it is, and no doubt the location is lovely. Dour weather doesn’t help, but it certainly lacks an appealing layout. Does it flood from River?
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We stayed at Moreton in Marsh once, on one side of our pitch a footpath to the facilities block, on the other side of our caravan, a small space and a hedge. One couple decided that just the extra few feet was too far to walk, so they continuously squeezed between our van and the hedge. One day we waited until the female went passed then we just opened the van window. On returning she got half way along then realised she couldn't pass, that's how close the gap was. From then on we lifted the cables up so they couldn't pass. We even experience it occasionally on our static site, once when I was sitting out, I explained to an irate person that we maintain the grass and pay (a lot) for our pitch. The elderly lady in front of us with mobility problems has asked residents if she can cut across their pitches to the bins. Everyone said yes of course she could. People should just be more thoughtful.
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But those photos have been taken when the site was nowhere near full. It has a different appearance at weekends and bank holidays.
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I guess it would take an awful lot of rain for the site to flood from the river as it flows into a huge loch.
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it was the best of sites, it was the worst of sites - a tale of two photographs
(apologies to Charles)
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Not just club sites though, most others larger sites follow the same pattern all over the UK, and indeed on the sites abroad too that I've seen. Probably the best way to get as many outfits in as possible. Doesn't bother me as it's only a place to stay overnight, not a resort.
Anyway more knowledge about club sites from your good self, good to see you take such an interest as a non member and presumably non user.
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Maragowan floods. The EHU bollards in the affected area are raised on concrete plinths. As well as the adjacent river, a burn flows through the site. Despite its surface area, Loch Tay can rise quite a bit when there is heavy rain - and there can be a lot of rain around there. That's why there are so many hydro-electric plants in the local area.
The first photograph is correct. When I stayed there the caravan was positioned to look out across the river, so to see the other row of users I would have had to peer out the frosted window in the washroom.
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yes I'm sure you're right, although there is another double row of pitches somewhere, away from the river?
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TtDA & Nellie, please be assured that the Maragowan site can, and does, flood from the River Lochay !!
There are two roads of one way traffic from the entrance to the furthest end and back to the exit, each road having pitches on both sides, as you thought Corners.
Should you not be too appreciative of the site, then you could always use the unstaffed associated site about a mile or so towards Aberfeldy but using that one might just mean you get bombarded by bolshie squirrels because it is set amongst oodles of trees
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