Well prior to that you all had it very good for a long time at £30 per year. Even then a number of the private owners aligned themselves with the now succesful destroy CWFC campaign. If only they had the forsight to see what it would cost them in the end.
£300 is a reasonable commercial fee for access through his business premises. Interesting that some people still describe CAA as a club on here, very soon they will realise that the club has gone for good and that the market forces of supply and demand now rule.
Gary has obviously quickly assessed the business benefit of giving private members subsidised access Via his lease and concluded there is none.