Marazion

It sounds to me like most of the Club’s no facility Sites are leased. They are possibly no facility mainly because the Club won’t commit funds to put up anything that costs money and that will be partially outside their control. Much Wenlock, Bromyard, Nunnykirk, not sure about Notgrove, suspect that is leased as well, and possibly the Hereford Site. I think the last two might be old railway cuttings, like Much Wenlock was. Bromyard is an old quarry. 

Estate have a lot of pull at Bolton Abbey, and some of the racecourse Sites don’t get a lot of investment from the Club, because they don’t own them. 

I suppose majority of Members want flash Sites nowadays, where the Sites are an end destination, rather than a simple pitch up to explore an area. 

Aberbran is definitely an old railway station, and Slinfold too is adjacent to an old line. Bourton-on -the-Water is another on an old line. Think that the lot.

Sorry😁 I forgot new name for Bourton, I still think of it as Notgrove.

Notgrove is owned by the club ,and the main reason, it has not been "upgraded"? with toilets and showers there is no mains drainage, only the four cesspits and one soakaway, which when busy has a 3000gallon honey wagon  tanker in every week and some times two journies,  ,and because the the Cotswold stone is very porous, effluent ,has to be contained to stop it getting into the water courses

I doubt whether it's a matter of giving up on them but if the Club can develop a site with full facilities it will do as A) it will be more popular and B) it will draw more revenue into the coffers. You only have to look at the shock horror in some of the posts on here when it was thought sites would have to open without facilities due to COVID!!! I would be perfectly happy for more sites with minimum facilities but I think that those of us who do are in the minority? Hebden Bridge is a good example where they even have a few serviced pitches.

David

 ... facilities it will do as A) it will be more popular and B) it will draw more revenue into the coffers. You only have to look at the shock horror in some of the posts on here when it was thought sites would have to open without facilities due to COVID!!!

but part of the 'shock horror' was due to being charged for full facilities when they were shut due to COVID. And the club seemed to think they were quite justified in doing so.

It seems by the site occupancy, over the period of all being "non facilty" that very few members were bothered about it,either

We will use our own facilities and have only used our shower since covid. Although would prefer access to the toilets simply because it minimises emptying. There was no shock horror about it. The warden phoned us about the lack of facilities at Culloden and we were happy to still go. After all we would have only been using the toilets in any event. Over there if we want no facilities we stop on an Aire. Here we would only pick no facilities if 1. It was in the right place and 2. there wasn’t a facility alternative.

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Possibly still negotiating the lease for the next ten years? Can’t release next years pitches until finalised? Apparently it’s happened before.....