Rumours abound...............
Avalon has a rail link...albeit a ****ty one, but the infrastructure is there.
It was recently discussed, in and papers, and here (IIRC) that AV is dropping/lowering its charges to become more attractive to GA operations.
Given that both AV and EN are controlled by the one operator, hard to fathom how that may impact existing EN operators, whom traditionally use Bacchus March for training ops.
Been a lil while since i operated out of Bacchus (and i did so as a glider pilot, so my access was incorporated into my membership fee) but maybe the operators of bacchus have put their fees up to a point where the GA operators have kicked up enough of a stink and threatened to leave, that the operator has made changes to the AV structure to better accomodate EN tennants, and GA as a whole.
IIRC, linfox does not own EN/AV, but merely has a lease to operate it. On that basis, he has very little to gain by closing the strip, unless the lease permits him to make money 'from the land' anyway he see's fit