Campsites closing at the end of the 2024 season

Or perhaps the Clachan site?

More than likely with the much more expensive Maragowan just 1 mile away.

I will be sad to see Dockray Meadow close, it is the site we like in the lakes. Much quieter than all the other lake sites.

Of course they are going to close it, its non facility and the others are more expensive so the club have to fill them. Well they wont with me as I will not be pushed into using something I don't want.

Every time we have been to Dockray the site has been almost full, with quite a few seasonal pitches. Yet the club say folk don't want non facilities, really. We use mainly non facility sites, we like them as do many others. 

With these camc sites closing why is it we don’t hear the camping and caravaning closing sites ?

Like the preverbal phoenix some previously lost to us sites have gone on to rise again and appear to be doing very well now under another guise. Anyone remember Ladycross Plantation? 

Yes, from many, many years ago. 1989 to be precise. I recall it being a very nice site. There was a guy lived behind the site with his own helicopter who flew off to his office, in Leeds I believe, every morning.

I’m not aware of C&CC having any similar small non-facility sites. However, they have lost a few franchised sites recently.

Where we live there was a fleet of mini buses run by the local bus company that did short trip between all the 'villages' in Washington going through the town centre. They were a feature of the town of many years. 

About a year ago they were stopped due to very low usage, as my neighbour said 'I've never used one but it's a shame they are going'. Very similar to what is being posted here.

These sites account for less than 1% of all club pitches and I suspect there are CLs near to them?  

 Chens

The Camping and Caravanning Club have recently lost to their network of sites,Oldbury Hill in Kent, Adgestone on the Isle Of Wight,Oxford ,had to pull out of Folkstone due to on going ground conditions,Umberleigh I am sure there is more ,but haven't got handbook to check,pulled out of all of their franchised sites,split from the Camping in the Forest chain,no oversea's section ,no winter rally's. ect

Oxford was the surprise to me,yes it was a city centre site,but so easy to get around.

They have added two though,remodernised both Braithwaite Village in the Lake District and Nottingham.

Lots of theories being put forward regarding these closures.  Mine is consistency.  Unfortunately over the past few months I have been on a number of CAMC sites.  They were all the same.  Perhaps the sites being closed don't fit the mold.  Judging by the descriptions I've read they are the ones that are different and possibly more interesting, even quirky.  

We drove past Ladycross back in April, it’s still there. I wonder how safe North York Moors site will be in next few years, with the two sites at Scarborough and Bridlington within 25 miles. Again, we much prefer it to Cayton Bay. Both the Scarborough sites are South of the town, so NYM is much closer to Whitby. It might sound isolated, but the big P&R makes Whitby an easy visit from there. As does the big Abbey car park at the South sides the River Esk. There was 20 years between my two visits, and I didn’t see any obvious signs of any recent investment.