Is it worth renewing

Yes!

Ah, you didn't say which club🤔

Quite a few yeras ago there was on a site a WW2 Bedford ex RAF fuel tanker ,that the owner had replaced  the tank with a caravan body and he had also put a roof hatch where the bren gun used to fit in the cab roof

I have seen in the distant past a real Land Rover110 with a tent on the roof,the kitchen was swung out from the back of the vehicle to the left and a canvas toilet tent with toilet to the right

When at a cclub site in the Cotswolds our grandaughter and her boyfriend bedded down in sleeping  bags under our windout canopy when staying with us in 2019 during a hot weekend rather than put their pup tent up

My thoughts on that is the occupants of van would be just as careful as the occupants of a fully equipped palace on wheels. We see what happens every year with some incidents, but they are rare thankfully.

On those grounds why does the club accept tents with an air mattress inside and camping cookers?!

We used to attend VSCC meetings where we saw huge coachbuilt motorhomes along side tents and safari landrovers, no one objected on the ground of looks and safety was important to all.

ABM wrote"..where the bren gun used to fit in the cab roof"

That'd stop short cuts across your pitch. 

In 11 years working with the club I've only ever had a look in 3 vans (not inspect) in that time and only one of those was in my opinion unsafe with a camping gas stove balanced on the front seat and a sleeping bag on the floor. It's not just the fire risk but the equally dangerous risk of CO poisoning. To me how anyone wants to camp is entirely up to them but the club takes the safety of it's staff and customers seriously. I do find it strange that that duty of care can be construed as having an elitist attitude but hey. Take a look around a club site during the summer, just like any other site, elitist it definitely ain't. 

JK

Now that’s brave, a Freelander. Not the tent bit, the fact that it’s on a grass pitch😂 Ours only ever worked in two wheel drive. I somehow bet that that is CCC.

I held out against the roof tent idea. I would have undoubtedly either broke my neck climbing out for a midnight pee......or walked in my sleep. Found doing so on a couple of occasions at home...🤣

Some 20 years ago I witnessed a unit catch on fire and it is not something I want to experience again.It went up terrifyingly quickly and two of the occupants were so badly burned that they required skin grafts.Safety rules are in the name.I agree with everything that JK has said in regard to ensuring that all are kept safe on site and that all on site behave safely.32 years in the CMC this year and I have no problem with the R and R of the Club or with the Wardens' oversight of them.A little common sense goes a long way.

It’s a lot different now to how it used to be JK, as are the nice Club Wardens, but we go back a whole lot further than that, and we did actually have a female Warden say to us “this Club doesn’t allow your sort of vehicle”. We were made to demonstrate how our pop roof worked, how the seats converted into a bed, was the two ring burner a proper hob? We were mid 20’s, it was the only vehicle we could afford at the time, and if I recall, our lovely well behaved Rottweiler was viewed with deep suspicion at the time.

Attitudes like this drove us away from the Club for a good few years, we enjoyed using nice private Sites. We re joined with a small caravan, and of course were welcomed without issues, other than the fact our van was, and invariably is, amongst the oldest on a Site. The curiosity value tends to be more on the part of other Members rather than Wardens nowadays. Maybe not elitist, but there is still “something” on some kinds of Club Sites. Some are definitely the realm of the big white box, carefully aligned, super clean, brand spanking new. Not a criticism, it’s just an observation.