When you say there aren't many chances to play Lydd other than Milsim events is that because it's not well publicised that two companies either have or have had monthly access to Lydd's Serial 40, Elite Action Games (EAG) and Elite Battle Zone. EAG its 1 Sunday a month since December and the deal I believe is for a year.
By the way I'm all for more events etc, I just find it hard to wrap my head around the business models that have caused 5 fairly large events to take place all in roughly the same area of the country on the same weekend. And that had they been more spread out there are many people, myself included who would play more of them.
eg. I was booked on the BattleTac weekender at Copehill when it was supposed to be back in May time. I'm going to GZ that weekend because its a team tradition and the largest turn out for us every year. I'd love to play Lydd but the dates for EAG have always been out or booked up well in advance. I've only just done a weekender at the Sandpit and would love to do another and I would like to give a Stirling game a go but its way too soon for another one.