Location page redirects to homepage

im at the end of my tether!!

so as i couldnt get the plugin to work correctly on the engine theme (waiting for reply from them re excerpt functions to see if i can use it)

so in the meantime in order not to be waiting around for my plan to get into action i decided i would use avada instead. and just sort out the live site straight away.

So i ahve removed the sabai directory plugin and installed and activated avada theme. i then installed wpgeodirectory and went through the setup.

as it stands now the location page at parlour.thetattooforum.com/location/ redirects to the site homepage

Things i have done

uninstalled and reinstalled the plugin
removed the installed pages and used gdtools to reinstall
added the location menu item and tried a custom link to the page directly.
i have set the permalinks in wp and gd
i have set the homepage to a specific page
i have unset that and changed it back to posts and chosen the location page

Basically in every case the location page redirects to the homepage

hlp plz