Barnsdale Leisure ceases caravan sales

Barnsdale Leisure has gone into voluntary liquidation, blaming difficult conditions in the market.

The dealer sold two well-known makes of caravan, Adria and Knaus, including models such as the Adria Adora 623DT Sava. However, unlike other recent closures in the industry, the Pontefract-based dealership, founded 11 years ago, is not closing down altogether.

While caravan sales will cease at Barnsdale Leisure, its workshop is continuing, and it plans to use the space vacated by caravan sales as a motorhome brokerage site. Future plans include setting up a caravan and motorhome body shop as well.

Charlie Schofield at Barnsdale Leisure said, “We have sorted out every outstanding customer, and no one has lost any deposits. No vans have gone missing.”

The news about the dealer follows on from Broad Lane Leisure, which called in the administrators in July. The dealer, based in the south Midlands, had continued to face cashflow problems, despite selling its Kenilworth site to Spinney earlier in 2024.

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PeterBaber

Peter Baber is Reviews Editor of both Practical Motorhome and Practical Caravan. He has been reviewing motorhomes for the best part of a decade now. His first caravan reviews date back to the early 1990s when he first worked on Practical Caravan, before he embarked on a 20-year career in business journalism which saw him edit a wide variety of magazines, and launch a few too, including one that won an award. Although he enjoyed that, he always knew he wanted to come back. Peter reports on all the new models that make it to dealer forecourts each season, giving his judgement online and in magazine reviews. He has twice been shortlisted for a Caravan Writers Guild award. When he is not working, apart from going on motorhome trips himself (mostly local to where he lives in West Yorkshire, but also last year right across France) he likes trying to write novels, cooking, throwing the odd pot, and has just taken up tennis.