February 4th, 2010
Holiday park developer defends move to add 90 caravans
The Park Holidays UK faced questions from the residents last week after the former stated that they need to add ninety extra caravans at the Birxham holiday homes park.
The site is within an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
Present during the meeting were fifty residents and councilors. Representing the company was Matt Purdon, the director of planning and Operations Director Danyl Fletcher.
The company has earmarked £2.5million for the park and part of the project is the upgrading of the existing 108 caravans and other facilities in the site.
Company officials said that it wouldn’t be financially and commercially viable to renovate the site without expanding it. They said that there’s a significant decrease in tourists over the years and expanding the plans would mean attracting the tourists back to the place.
Officials also stressed that there will be additional jobs for the locals with the planned expansion.
The decision will be made by the committee late next month.
