Camping in the Forest Sites

Thanks for the link, definitely reads as though they want to focus on sites they own.

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If you look up the Glenmore lease for sale it gives some indication of the finances involved, the length of lease etc however this is standard practice and there are many campsites in the UK up for lease or sale. Glenmore has permission for lodges too. As I said on the previous thread the previous arrangements probably benefitted both parties but maybe when leases are up the new arrangements may not suit the lessee or vice versa. Other than a bit of speculation on here I hope the process resolves in due course. 

Was that ever run by the C&CC, or always by CitF?

Not completely sure on that Nellie, memory is vague on that must be thirty or more years ago we first stayed there. However, that link remains and I’m told that staff are in the dark regarding their future and could be moving across to the C&CC.

We also used the Balmacara site all those years ago. Beautiful setting, a shame that was closed.

Nellie. Glenmore is C&CC run at present, a nice site and well used all year round. Used to see hardy tent campers in the depths of winter when we lived up there. 

To all intents and purposes, pardon that pun, it is C&CC. They operate exactly the same practices, their uniforms, not a hi-vis in sight which is so pleasing and relaxing to the eye, are all badged as CitF.

I stayed here in the early 90s and it was definitely was not C&CC then.

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I suspect that some, if not all, will end up under the Forest Holidays umbrella https://www.forestholidays.co.uk/

Beddgelert, which was Forestry Commission, then CITF (CCC) has gone this way, coming off the CITF network around 5 years ago. The money is in luxury lodges, not touring pitches.
We drove around Beddgelert some three years ago, as it was somewhere always top of our Welsh campsite list. We wouldn’t stop there now. The few touring pitches it has now are tiny, in deep shade and infested with mozzies. The Lodges now occupy the best land, and they are nice, but expensive. 
Spiers House campsite, Cropton Forest in North Yorks, another Forestry Commission campsite went this way back in the early 2000’s, although probably for a different reason, being an absolute swamp after rain. Now all Lodges.

We've stayed with Forest Holidays,  I assumed they are all cabins/lodges. I see Delamere now has a lodge area, sounds like this is the way things are going. However other camp sites are available.