Many thanks for all your replies.
Judging from the replies on this thread, and from many of the schools, it doesn't seem at all unreasonable for me to expect to be able to complete the CPL training in 3 weeks, given good weather.
I have to commend the school in Texas (I'm sure you can figure out which, there aren't too many of them) who insisted that I should allow 4 weeks for the CPL, and that although it may be possible to do it in 3, to rely on getting it done in this time wasn't sensible. I don't know why they think it takes longer than any other school I've spoken to - maybe they have less aircraft/instructor availability? - but I would much rather hear it straight from them than have them tell me to come along, we'll get you a CPL in 3 weeks, then find when I get there that I can't fly as many hours each week as I need to - so thank you. A pity, though, because they would have been one of my first choices otherwise.
FFF
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