We need more basic facility sites

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  • JVB66
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    edited September 2022 #212

    I am sure racecourse sites are run by this club for the racecourse as most of the facilities are not for exclusive club use as is Warwick, Cheltenham ,Thirsk

  • eurortraveller
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    edited September 2022 #213

    There’s a CL In the New Forest offering a whole week for £70. Cheap sites abound.

  • JVB66
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    edited September 2022 #214

    With EHU?

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  • SteveL
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    edited September 2022 #216

    It is all about location though for us. A £70 a week CL would be no more attractive to us than the New Forest Centenary Site, if it’s as remote as that is. So would need to know where it is located.  BK and the camping in the forest site are OK in that respect.

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  • Tinwheeler
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    edited September 2022 #220

    I can assure you the facilities at Warwick are for the exclusive use of campers as they also are at Uttoxeter where the club leases the site for x number of months per year. Racegoers are not permitted onto the pitching areas at those two sites.

    However, use of facilities on racecourse sites has nothing to do with the perceived need for more basic sites.

  • GEandGJE
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    edited September 2022 #221

    The New Forest is a big place. Whereabouts is this CL and is its location comparable to Black Knowl.

  • harryb
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    edited September 2022 #222

    Thanks for the comment. I have taken no further part for some pages now.

  • MikeyA
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    edited September 2022 #223

    Do you mean the ones who don't work beyond 8.00pm. 

    Why do you need this so called security, as long as you have a mobile phone signal you can contact 999 in a real emergency.

  • Muddywheels
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    edited September 2022 #224

    Thanks for this 👍

    We were members of both but dropped C&CC in favour of CAMC some years ago - might be time for a rethink 

    We have recently booked with freedom camping club too which hasn’t charged us a membership fee

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  • vbfg
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    edited September 2022 #226

    Of course you are correct that everyone's needs are different but I don't think CMHC sites are anything like Haven, as most of them don't have pools or entertainment, something that I neither require nor want.  

  • Rocky 2 buckets
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    edited September 2022 #227

    Thank you, & we will be happy to share & respond to them. Personally I think you are missing an opportunity being an authority mind🤷🏻‍♂️👍🏻

  • JVB66
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    edited September 2022 #228

    Unless there is off road routes to the places you mention I would not use routes that have motor vehicles on🤔

     

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  • JVB66
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    edited September 2022 #229

     Some pitches at Warwick are at times not avallaable .

    Did I mention Utoxiter?

  • Tinwheeler
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    edited September 2022 #230

    Pitches not being available is not the same as the public having access to site facilities.

    No, I mentioned Uttoxeter as a further example of a racecourse site where the facilities are for campers only.

    You're drifting way off topic, JV, and I’m leaving it there.

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  • Cornersteady
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    edited September 2022 #232

    Yes, the Sustrans routes steer you away from the heavy traffic and onto quieter roads, some very quiet, but most routes are likely to be a mix of thinner and denser traffic with some (hopefully) being traffic free

    Going off topic here BB but your quite wrong about the sustrans routes for up here and from others who I'm in contact with from all over the county who share their experience, perhaps it's in just your area? There are numerous cycle routes where no road use is at a minimum or not at all, I can easily cycle, and actually have done 50+ miles from home where the only on road use is a mile to the nearest off road cycle route north and south. From home I can, and have gone as far north at Old Hartley is all off road (and the off road continues northwards), as far south as Bishop Aulkland, as far west as Rookhope. We're just lucky we have all these old railway lines and old pit waggon ways. It would be a good new thread to share routes.

     

  • Cornersteady
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    edited September 2022 #233

    I recall very clearly you posting in past times that the club should have differential prices for grass and hardstanding to encourage their respective uses especially grass which you often said you preferred and now it has come to pass that grass is cheaper you should be happy?

    I see it as a discount but you see it it as an extra expense, its all depends on one viewpoint but really it's all up to what one is prepared to pay. 

    Again another thread here about this rather than use this one. 

  • Cornersteady
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    edited September 2022 #234

    No one said it wasn't serious but as you said all views should be listened to.

    The thing is now harry is what you're going to do next to get what you want into actual pitches?

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  • Goldie146
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    edited September 2022 #236

     Englethwaite Hall Is a non facility site - but has several serviced pitches.

    Sorry, if this has already been mentioned.