CL opening date!

CG, have just made you link live, as it wasn't on your post.

https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=13C_J5-s3NMVutO6us4A-f8GHWys4moUe&ll=54.57545802742296%2C-2.9238412499999855&z=6

Re my post above, 21/06/2020, I have now returned from a quite pleasant four nights away. As I mentioned above, I was surprised that there is no request for my membership number when booking. Although it is a CL and has two CL plaques at the entrance stating members only and 5 units only I still believe that anyone could very easily book this site.  During our stay we did not once get a visit from anyone from the farm. We went to their coffee shop to get some ice cream and told the staff that we had just arrived and had a booking on the CL. Although friendly enough they didn't really appear to be that bothered. No check on name or membership number. As we were the last of the five to arrive perhaps they just assumed who we were.

On arriving home and just out of interest I entered the farm name into Google and their web site, including a link to their caravan site online booking form, came up. So my suspicions are correct, anybody, club member or not, could book a pitch.

Talking of pitches, The CL has a very spacious and fairly level area for grass pitching but also has hard standings which we and the others were obliged to use because there had been a substantial amount of rain. However, these hard standings are very small and cramped. They are probably about 1½ caravans wide but with only approximately 10 feet between the edge of our HS and the next. Our neighbour put up an awning, (not big), the side of which was about four feet from our caravan. I 'm surprised the club allow this. Surely it has been inspected ??

All in all we had a good time and, despite the chance of non-members using it we would certainly return providing we could pitch on the grass and have more space.

So I guess that as it suit your needs you will not be reporting what you consider to be breached of the club's rules to the relevant section at NO then!!😁

Edited: I had asked for the name of the CL in question, but have found it under your profile, as you have reviewed it, thank you.

Sorry Nellie but you are wrong. I was in touch with the club who agreed that some of the hard standings were too close to each other to allow awnings to be used. They also said that they would take up the matter of the web site not stating that it was a CL for C&MC members only but as yet there is no change to the CL's web site.

As I have stated previously I would go back to the CL again but not if it was to be on a hard standing. Hopefully it wouldn't be fully boked by non-club members.

Glad to read that you've contacted HO and managed to get word back from them. I wonder how long it will take for their recommendations to be implemented, if at all, and for that to be reflected in the web site.

As an update to the above, I've just had a look at the CLs own website again and find that despite staff at East Grinstead saying they would take up the matter of it being for members only, there is still no mention of this 3 months later. I just hope that if members try to book they don't find it is already fully booked by non-members.

Not awful at all but what I object to is not being able to use a club facility, in the guise of a CL in this instance, because someone who is not a club member and therefore not entitled to use the facility, has prevented me from using it. I'm sure this will be the feeling of most members. If not, why are we all paying our membership fees each year if CLs can be available to anyone? It isn't even a case of non-members paying a higher nightly fee when it comes to CLs.

Spot on.

It's not a question of not wishing to mix with non-members, it's a question of a cl being available for members only