A CL In the making

Tried link, but one has to be a group member to read the posts, so no good for me and many others I suppose.

I did say "for those with Facebook"

It's a pity as it's quite interesting, a  very expensive project. 

From Facebook and cl owner. there are photo's but I can't load them

Here is our first update on creating Laggan CL.
We have had a great couple of days on the siteworks and things are starting to come together on the new CL. We have stripped around 600 tonnes of topsoil to get us down to the hard sub base. We have also recycled around 400 tonnes of sand & gravel to use to level off each pitch. The wee hole that we recycled the gravel from has been filled up with excess topsoil that we wont need. We have the first 2 pitches ready for the edgings that will differentiate between the pitches and the grass and should have another 2 complete tomorrow. All the underground pipes arrive in the morning so installing the field drains and grey waste points on the pitches will be on tomorrows to do list.
We have also been asked to keep a running total of the spend to make this happen, so here is week one's outlays.
Rolec EHU bollards including water taps £1648.24
Underground drainage pipes & fittings: £919.25
Underground water tank & submersible pump: £1882.80
SSE Electric new 100A power supply: £582.40
Electric underground cabling: £887.66
Plastic solutions Elsan Disopsal Point: £406.20
Wi-fi upgrade to give 30 mps at all pitches: £947.25
30 hours for excavator, dumper & driver : £3000.00
TOTAL: £10273.80

To be fair, the items detailed suggest this new CL is very much towards the luxury end of the scale - exceeding many full size sites in it's salubriousness.   A tap and a place to empty chemical toilet could be achieved for a tiny fraction of the expenditure so far.

I wonder if there is a planned Phase Two move on to getting planning permission for a larger site?

Perhaps Cholsey or someone can persuade him to post the tale on here.

The cost of a planning application and the likelyhood of it being passed on the nod is nothing in the scale of things. 

Of course a more basic CL would be much cheaper to set up. However there is clearly a demand for CL's with hardstandings and electrics. The purists might not agree but if the owner wants to have an extended season, and also encourage motorhomes, then hardstandings are probably the way to go. From reading the posts on the Facebook Group (thanks for the link Harry) I think his intention is to provide individual toilet/shower facilities in the future. Be interesting to see what the charges are when he gets to that stage. 

David

With the increasing number who have embraced Solar and/or Lithium, I would venture to suggest that Hard Standing might be a more desirable facility than EHU, particularly from a season length perspective. Reduced running costs for the owner as well.

Harry, I am on FB, but am unwilling to sign up for yet another group just to read the odd post from them.

Thanks for the breakdown, all the same, it was most interesting.

Thinking of the future where gas to put into bottles will become rarer to obtain and be seen by the public as environmentally damaging we will have to rely on EHU to a much greater extent.  Maybe we will see caravan builders fitting electric ovens as well as hobs.

Interesting that the electricity supply mentioned above is 100 Amperes, which is just over the amount needed for five pitches, so maybe not intending to go over the CL numbers anytime soon.