English holiday park reveals multi-million renovation plans – with upgraded pool and new attraction

A HOLIDAY parkland successful Devon is acceptable to acquisition a immense multi-million-pound renovation.

The readying committee astatine Teignbridge assembly has approved the next signifier of a multi-million-revamp astatine Golden Sands Holiday Park successful Dawlish, southbound Devon.

Documents submitted to the assembly outline a bid of renovations to the clubhouse, store and reception area.

The site's outdoor swimming pool volition besides get a roof, with a caller brainsick golf people and enactment centre being built.

The excavation volition beryllium for the usage of vacation parkland guests lone and not for members of the public.

Park Holidays who ain Golden Sands Holiday Park besides applied for retrospective support of its 25 timber camping pods.

The timber pods were built astatine the Devonshire vacation park betwixt 2018 and 2022.

When they were being built, Golden Sands had readying support for 58 caravan and touring pitches.

In a portion successful the Dawlish Gazette, Cllr Linda Goodman-Bradbury described the retrospective support arsenic "disappointing".

She added: "My interest is astir the footprint, and wherever the h2o is going. Dawlish Warren is precise prone to flooding."

Chartered municipality planner Robert Gandy, spoke connected behalf of Park Holidays, countering the concerns of flooding, with the pods being little impactful successful presumption of drainage compared to the pitches.

Park Holidays describes the pods arsenic "an breathtaking caller benignant of accommodation designed to connection an alternate to camping and touring."

The timber pods sleep up to 4 radical and travel equipped with treble glazing, insulation and heating.

While the improvements person been fixed the go-ahead, a timeline has yet to beryllium revealed, which means it is not yet known erstwhile the features volition beryllium connected the site.

In the meantime, the coastal vacation park has capable to support you occupied.

The Devonshire vacation parkland has some an indoor and an outdoor swimming pool.

It is besides adjacent to respective beaches similar the Blue Flag Dawlish Warren, Teignmouth Town Beach and Ness Cove.

Other on-site facilities see a edifice and bar, an outdoor playground and an arcade with penny machines.

Holidaymakers tin publication an overnight enactment successful the camping pods, with prices starting from £37.50 per night.

The holiday parkland has been praised by visitors connected TripAdvisor, with 1 idiosyncratic writing: "Another fantastic week astatine Golden Sands."

Another added: "I've been going to Golden Sands for 5 years, emotion the staff, caravan and entertainment".

Golden Sands isn't the lone vacation parkland that has precocious revealed plans to renovate.

Earlier this week, Haven's Presthaven Sands, which was visited by footballer Harry Maguire implicit the summer, besides announced plans to renovate.

The vacation parkland has present revealed caller plans to upgrade the resort.

New documents submitted to the section assembly see a immense extended play zone, with aerial escapade courses, climbing walls and bungee trampolines.

A caller inflatable arena arsenic good arsenic a dog-friendly "Bark Yard zone" are besides portion of the plans.

And Haven Primrose Valley opened a Wetherspoons on-site earlier this year, the archetypal of its benignant - and we went down.

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