Hi Andrew
We stayed at Low Park Wood for a week last year. Unfortunately it wasn't one of our better experiences which resulted in a letter to the CC. In all fairness the site itself is very nice, in a lovely location, and with some very nice pitches. The problems that we found were as follows:
The site is a one way affair through the woods with lots of one way avenues going off which you can't see unless you drive or walk down them. When we arrived it was very busy with only a few pitches available, but the wardens didn't know which ones as people were coming and going all the time. We had to drive through the site 3 time before we found a suitable pitch, so each time we had to drive off the site and get the warden to open the barrier for us to come on again. There was no where to pull up in order to walk around, so in the end I had to stop on someone else's pitch and my wife had to run around all the avenues and then stand on a pitch while I drove off and back on again in order to get to it.
There are a lot of lovely pitches in full sun, spacious and not under the dreaded lime trees. But these were all taken by seasonal users, so mostly had unoccupied caravans on them. All the vacant ones were small dark and dingy pitches and under the trees.
We ended up parking up an avenue, under a lime tree, with about six other occupied 'vans. Not too bad other than the whole avenue was just gravel and hard soil, so looked like a car park. But the next day, we arrived on a bank holiday Sunday, most of the other people left, leaving their seasonal caravans behind. So we ended up on our own at the end of this avenue of unoccupied caravans. Then the weather turned a bit grim for a few days and we were on a cold dark depressing pitch. When the sun did shine the parked up caravans were all in the sunshine, with no-one in them. We were in thick clothing with the heater on feeling quite depressed.
Now this is obviously only going to be a problem on busy weekends, but it's a shame that the seasonal unoccupied caravans are taking up all the best pitches. We won't be going there again. It took several washes to get the sap from the lime trees off the awning.
We stayed at Fairoaks several years ago and found it to be a very nice site.