Chapel Hill Stables

Build your plan

Two parts: how to get free of cottages.com, then what we build once you are. Take what makes sense, leave the rest.

First things first

Getting out of cottages.com

Nothing new goes live until you're free of them. Here's the whole exit, in order. It uses their own contract rules, so there's nothing for them to argue with.

1
Check both agreements match
Dig out Oak's and Elm's paperwork. Confirm they're the same: 18% + VAT, signed 21 August 2025. There's one per stable, so the notice below gets sent twice, once for each. Quote your account password on each.
2
Send the notice · this is the one that matters
By email and recorded post, to the notice address on cottageowners.com. From the day it lands, they can't take any booking past your end date, so next year is yours. One per stable.
"After much thought, and due to personal family circumstances, we have decided to stop holiday letting. We will need the property back as soon as our final booked guests have stayed.

Please treat this as our formal written notice under clause 18 to end our Agreement. On six months' notice the Agreement ends at close of 15 January 2027 at the latest.

Every existing booking will of course be honoured to the usual standard. Our final guests depart on 6 October. If you were able to agree an end date shortly after that, we'd be grateful, though we understand if the full notice must run.

This is a family decision and it's final, so please don't feel any need to suggest alternatives. Please confirm receipt and anything you need from us."
3
Block your own calendar from 1 November
Through the normal owner booking section, mark both stables unavailable from 1 November onward, using your winter owner allowance. This is the family using the space. It shrinks what they can sell to a few quiet October weeks.
4
If they go quiet or argue about dates
Heard nothing in two weeks, or they dispute the date? Just send the notice again on 22 August. Costs a stamp, ends it. Worst case you're free on 22 February 2027 instead of 15 January.
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Until your end date, four don'ts
So they've nothing to complain about: look after the bookings they've already taken · don't list anywhere else yet · don't sell your own nights cheaper than their website price · don't contact guests they found you.
Once that's moving, here's what we build.
1Choose your website
Your three-night stay is worth £750, and it's built into whichever you pick.
2Add what makes it work
My honest recommendation: the brand and content are what actually bring bookings in. The rest is up to you.
3Hosting
Keeps the site online, backed up and secure. Added to your first payment.
Pick how you'd like to pay for hosting
£30/mopaid yearly (£360)
£40/mopaid quarterly (£120 now)
Gabriel Fleming · Fleming Digital · gabriel@flemingdigital.com
Project total
£0 · pick your options