Very Sad
According top this month's CC Magazine 16, yes , SIXTEEN, CLs have shut down this month. 
Must be a sign of the times and ever rising costs maybe. A recession or depression or whatever . Clearly a loss of 16 CLs in one month is a heck of a lot.
It may simply be that these are all CLs who withdrew at the end of 2011 as an annual review - the magazine no longer gives the reason for withdrawal.
No they don't, I wish they still did, especially when a regular holiday spot closes!! Only found out that one of our regular site owners had died when we wrote to say that my wife died and that then came as quite a shock at a time you could do without it and the family could probably of done without our news too! Just a the simple reason for closure would of saved upset on both sides.
On the faces. of it tat is indeed sad news. We have stayed on numerous CLs over the years of widely different standards. One or two were obviously not up to scratch and needed to be closed down. Others were spectaculary good with great facilities above what you would normally expect from a CL. I agree it would be good to learn if the CL had closed f economic reasons of if they failed to keep to the standards the CClub require of them.
Jim
I would agree with the above, but how many times do you read of complaints re cls and ocupation numbers. CC members are very quick to complain if their expectations are not meet, the CC follows all of these and will close any cl that breaks the rules. You must remember the CC makes no income from CLs. the offer them as a service to the members.
They could be shutting due to high cost of electric and people who abuse it and have fan heaters going in their awnings during the winter months!
That's a common sight now isn't it Surfer. I was on a CS this summer and a guy turned up with a campervan who demanded 16A supply as he had taken out all the gas appliances and replaced them with electric only. Unfortunately for him the site owners had put 6A fuses in all the EHU's, you should have heard the fuss he made. Why do some people think they can pay less than a tenner a night including free showers etc and then use £'s worth of electricity.
Having a CL or CS is hardly a money making enterprise and most site owners do it for very little profit. We should be grateful many even bother considering the way they are treated by some caravanners. No shows, rowdy families, dogs out of control, abuse of facilities etc must be demoralising and for so little return.
Graham has it about right, as do others, with people abusing the facilities and making it uneconomical to keep running.
Only this summer I was called to a caravan as the electric kept cutting out and when I added up all the appliances they were trying to use at the same time it came to 25Amps,,,,,,,,,,,,and they wondered why the power kept cutting out.
The one item which was unbelievable was a 2Kw fan heater on full, in the awning, with the panels removed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I find the comments on this very interesting, because when you mention metering the supply, teddies get thrown out of prams.We have 3 pitches that have a meter on each hook up ,We have used these to monitor usage over the winter. Todate usage per 24 hrs ranges from £1.50 to over £3. Its because of these costs we cannot offer a low season price, as we are finding our costs are higher in winter than summer. I could well see we close over the winter months if we cannot recover this cost.
David
I agree whole heartedly peple take advantage of the free electricity with having fan heaters going all night in the awning for a dog can you believe? two other instances are in the day because the children are playing in the awning, and having visitors on a cool evening sitting in the awning with fan heater going. Why not sit in the warmth and comfort of your own caravan/motor home or have you dog in with you. Awnings leak heat through every orifice. I don't blame David O for his thoughts on closing in the winter. Meters will become fixtures on more CL's I think.
According top this month's CC Magazine 16, yes , SIXTEEN, CLs have shut down this month.
Must be a sign of the times and ever rising costs maybe. A recession or depression or whatever . Clearly a loss of 16 CLs in one month is a heck of a lot.
My apologies.
The Title is VERY SAD. The Forum wont let me edit my original Grrr
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