Grass between pitches
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@ Deleted User User ... After 20 years of using it a warden spotted it and told me extra joints were not allowed as damp might get in.
The warden has obviously never seen a Mitie or ISS cleaner in action with a hose pipe in a factory .... there's not a chance that any electrical item within 20' of him/her is not drenched and water WILL get into plugs & sockets. 🙄🙄
And Google says that our blue outside plugs & sockets are only IP44 ie splashproof. Which means that if water wants to get in, it will.
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We have to remember that the overriding constraints are the 6 and 3 metre firebreaks. On some sites not only are the grass fingers included but sometimes even part of the gravel pitch too in these fire break measurements. Not all sites have uniform pitches, some were laid out years ago. Sometimes we have to work together in order to live alongside each other with regard to any area in between!
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"On a non awning pitch the car is parked on the door side of the van."
But what if I have a UK built van, rather than a Euro built one with the door on the wrong side?
I won't want to fall over the bonnet of my car when exiting the caravan in the morning .
In the old days, before hard standings, it was relatively simple - you park up the van - offside to the peg and park your car on the van's offside. Thus leaving your doorway clear to use.
With hard standings should the peg now be in the middle of the pitch?
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I have just been reading through all the post and thought the same, why doesn't the OP use a grass pitch. It would give the dog a much better surface to be on.
We were on grass at the Wirral and really enjoyed that, much more space, or so it felt as the next pitch just had a MH on it.
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...why doesn't the OP use a grass pitch
cos the club is slowly covering it all in blasted gravel .... at the request of many here that don't want any grass cuttings being dragged into their caravan or don't want their motorhome to be bogged down
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Like they've done at Rosedale. It used to have a nice 'feel' to it - like a big CL - but now it looks like any other regimented car park. All that gravel just doesn't look right, in that setting.
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When I was there a couple of years ago, only the side nearest the road were hardstandings and I was warned that the other side may be a little boggy in places (even though it had recently been dry) so perhaps they have or did have, a problem with the drainage.
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And now grass strip rage!
life is so much easier across the Channel
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We are on a Caravan Club Site at the moment, we have our jeep, caravan, awning & we always put up a windbreak as we have 4 dogs so it's nice for them 2 lay on the grass.
We were asked to take it down today (been up 5 days) as the warden needed to cut the grass which we did, then we put it back up in the same place the warden saw this, about 2 hrs later another warden came to see us & said he had had 4 complaints regarding our windbreak. We asked 12 of the caravans close to us none had complained, we were 7.2metres away from any vehicles or caravans either side of us so no fire hazard, no mention of anything else in the rules so surely we could have left our windbreaks up.
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Did you ask the warden to explain?
As long as you've 6m between caravans/MHs and 3m between cars/awnings, the spacing regs have been complied with.
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Ooh! Door to door, that'll start a "debate"
I think you're over dramatising by calling it "rage" to be honest Harry.
As for your picture, yes very nice but a bit selective. I don't have the photos on my tablet but that site doesn't look much like the one we walked through near Lake Garda a few years back where you could easily lean out of the window and shake your neighbour's hand or, with just a little more effort, give his wife a goodnight kiss!
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A blast from the past which some of you have seen before , but this is our idea of a grass strip.
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I’m sure we've all got examples.
Btw, mine was on a club site.
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No, I’m keeping a running count of issues that cause site rage, nearly up to a full page now.
People complain about fairy lights - Just you wait until I get my LED wind lanterns!
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We've just left Trewethett Farm, our neighbors (6) VW van towing a caravan put up the awning filling their hard standing area, then a tent on the grass strip, I said must be for the dog to shade, no someone slept in it, O/H said calm down we leave tomorrow, let someone else moan, she won.
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Pup tents on the pitch are allowed for sleeping in. We can only assume the warden was happy with the placement of it.🤷🏻♂️
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