Birmingham Anglers Association

A strategically placed platform can turn a absolute no-peg into a very good peg.
However having them many feet above low water level. is just plain daft, spoils a good fishery for the majority and can be a really unsafe position if an accident were to occur.
Having stakes sticking up below only increases the risk of serious injury if fallen upon!

Any club or association, should be biased towards river conditions which are obviously going to be used most by their members most of the time.
Siting platforms to suit flood conditions and the absolute minority who go out in these conditions does not meet this criteria!

Those of us who do fish in high floods should know which venues will have platforms underwater, so when I go fishing in high flood conditions, I go to a venue or individual peg which I know is platform free.

Also, setting a platform back so that it is almost impossible to run a stick float through is not a good thing to do.
It limits a peg to ledgering tactics and also makes landing larger fish (especially chub) very difficult.

If at all possible, a platform should be built to at least the edge of any reeds, so if a walkway is needed, so-be-it!.
This does happen on some BAA venues!

As for having two platforms on a peg I agree with davidH, one is better so long as it is done right.

At Ladyham a second platform at some pegs or starting again from scratch and lowering the present high platforms, is an either-or situation which would be a solution to the situation.

I think most of us just want a pleasant days' fishing which is also as safe as it is possible to be.