The strip isn't closing and in that other thread it was quoted:
Flew there the other day, and heard on the rumour mill that Air Services were puting the cost of re-surveying the approaches onto the operator, who was not prepared to pay the cost.
Not quite. This is simply part of the long term pre-planned gradual decommissioning of the old fashioned nav-aids although this one gets a lot of use so that does surprise me a little.