Oldroadies
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Please can anyone help?
When we stay on most UK campsites, we are asked to pitch in a certain way so as to provide a 5-6m fire break between units, we have also stayed on a few sites where you can pitch anywhere within your allocated pitch, thus you could only be a metre or so away from the adjacent unit, in France we have never been asked to pitch in any particular way and have seen units sharing a pitch to keep costs down.
Now with regard to insurance and the law, is the onus on you to make sure you have sufficient space between your vehicles and the next or the campsite owners? If the worst scenario happened and your unit or an adjacent one caught fire and it spread. Would you claim from the Campsites insurance, yours (if your unit caught fire) or the other unit if theirs was the cause of the fire. Would your insurance cover you if you had not pitched with sufficient space or would the campsite be fined because it was their responsibility to make sure that units were pitched with a minimum space, and if you had been offered a pitch where you would have had to pitch too close to other units due to the way the units on the adjacent pitches had been parked should you refuse to pitch and request another with more space between units?
So many questions and probably in the small print somewhere, but I couldn't find it (or may have been answered before?)
Hope I've posted this in a relevant forum, thanks for any help
When we stay on most UK campsites, we are asked to pitch in a certain way so as to provide a 5-6m fire break between units, we have also stayed on a few sites where you can pitch anywhere within your allocated pitch, thus you could only be a metre or so away from the adjacent unit, in France we have never been asked to pitch in any particular way and have seen units sharing a pitch to keep costs down.
Now with regard to insurance and the law, is the onus on you to make sure you have sufficient space between your vehicles and the next or the campsite owners? If the worst scenario happened and your unit or an adjacent one caught fire and it spread. Would you claim from the Campsites insurance, yours (if your unit caught fire) or the other unit if theirs was the cause of the fire. Would your insurance cover you if you had not pitched with sufficient space or would the campsite be fined because it was their responsibility to make sure that units were pitched with a minimum space, and if you had been offered a pitch where you would have had to pitch too close to other units due to the way the units on the adjacent pitches had been parked should you refuse to pitch and request another with more space between units?
So many questions and probably in the small print somewhere, but I couldn't find it (or may have been answered before?)
Hope I've posted this in a relevant forum, thanks for any help
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