Campsites closing at the end of the 2024 season

Yes. The no facility sites used to be a standard price, regardless of how many in the party. Also prices didn’t change much during the year. I wonder if there is a correlation between the change in price regime and lower occupancy?

Given that some sites lose money they are still used by the membership and as such are useful. Cross substitution is not such a bad thing. After all it is a Club. We could gradually lose site after site if it is based on profit only .The non facility sites are close to CL prices and useful for members that balk at the site prices

I've posted somewhere upthread that yes the club will is/should use profits from very well used sites for others, however as I said there must come a point when that's just not viable anymore and the club loses money overall. These sites were underperforming for a number of years. 

I've just seen a comment on a Facebook group about Englethwaite Hall, saying "shame it's closing". It wasn't on Rowena's original post, so I hope it's just speculation and not true.

It's "no facility" but very well used, being about 6 miles from the M6.

There's been no announcement Goldie so I would think it is fake.

I’d hesitate to call it a divide, it’s just a choice, but yes, I think more and more Members simply want to roll up, pitch up, plug everything in, and have next to nothing to do in terms of daily chores. Given that the Club’s largest demographic is at the older end of the touring scale, then ditching the proper “camping sites”, and embracing the more “semi residential” set up (a mobile living unit that you simply move from place to place and plug in) does make this easier, and it’s where the money is. Nothing wrong with it, it’s an option. Some will love it, others will walk away.

The Club has duties and responsibilities to the staff they employ . But expecting staff  to live and work on a no facilities site without access even to a flush toilet and decent washing facilities is not something that happens on other campsites in the western world. It might even be against the law. If the Club cannot provide properly for its employed staff then those no facility sites should close.

I think you will find the staff have facilities.

No facilities sites, have been going for decades, they would have been shut long before now if anything was against the law I would imagine.

From various talks with wardens moving to one they liked the no facility sites as less cleaning to do each day, not sure if that is reflected in their pay.