Nunnykirk club site

Is occupancy declining? That's not what Ro said. She said cost were rising but occupancy was not, so it may just be static. As has already been observed, cranking up the price up by 20% sure won't help. Is this indicative of Grimstead Towers strategy of expanding  a homogenous product to the detriment of places such as Nunnykirk with a "you'll have what we give you and pay handsomely for the privilege" attitude?

I don't want hard standings which is why I'd choose sites like Nunnykirk & I would suggest that goes for other users of Nunnykirk too. There are plenty of other club sites with wall to wall gravel without bu66ering up Nunnykirk & the like.

I can't think of one club site that I've been to that has wall to wall gravel. The roads are usually tarmac and there are grass strips between pitches.

I think wall to wall grass is far worse

Agree, fine for peak season but off peak? Bourton on the Water price structure varies by season. Not looked at Threeways but think that is similar. Wouldn't a season variation in price be a better? 

peedee

Last time I was at Nunnykirk was, I think, in 2005. Looking at the site pictures, it has received quite a bit of investment since. Certainly looks a lot tidier and I don't recall the tarmac driveways.

While I can appreciate the Club not wanting to put in permanent structures when sites are on short term leases, I would have thought some things could be done and recovered, perhaps in part, for use elsewhere?

peedee

Marazion and Stover prices vary by season while Cadeside remains constant 🤷🏻‍♂️

Though not site wide I can think of 3 club sites that have areas where there's not even a blade of grass between gravel pitches let alone a grass finger.

Best you avoid Nunnykirk if you don't like grass .... 

Notgrove site (Bourton on the water now) actually is owned by the club and at times is very popular  and has its season extended in the last couple of years, the additional hardstands were put in in about 2001, as it was dificult to use the area of the old railway cutting and storage due to it being very wet and muddy when opening , as for upgrading with a toilet block there is no mains drainage and not possible to installation  or any chance of increasing the water supply which comes via the farm and is also shared with the two houses in the lane (old station aproach road which is also cc property over which the house owners only have access to their properties,  the costs would far outweigh any chance of recovering 

And members tend to use cc non facility sites as they appreciate cc staff being arround most of the time,

I doubt that closing this site would loose many members. I suspect that most, who like myself happily use none facility sites also use facility sites 

It doesn't say in Rowena's response that occupancy is declining, it says costs are rising but it sounds like occupancy is static and the site has been operating on a yearly rolling lease. Similar to the precarious Baltic Wharf which has high occupancy and hard standings. There are a lot of diffculties involved with short term leases on a high or low earning basis, this is the main challenge for the club. Unstable leases are not the best situation for any leaseholder.