The pretty UK beach set to be transformed by £350k revamp

Newport Sands is acceptable to person a large makeover (Image: Getty)

A beauteous dune backed, sandy UK beach is acceptable to person a £350,000 makeover.

Located astatine the rima of the River Nevern, Newport Sands Beach successful Pembrokeshire is known locally arsenic 'Traeth Mawr' which means "Big Beach" and for bully crushed - it is astir 1.5 miles long.

The formation attracts flocks of visitors each twelvemonth acknowledgment to its glorious white sandy beach and is lone a abbreviated thrust oregon 25-30 infinitesimal locomotion from the centre of Newport, Pembrokeshire. 

Guests staying successful the colony tin take from an array of hotels, B&Bs, guesthouses, caravan and camping sites. A play people adjacent backs onto the formation cleanable for those with a keen interest.

Now plans by Pembrokeshire nationalist parkland strategy to redevelop Newport Sands’ car park, with other parking spaces, formation entree ramps and caller nationalist conveniences, is expected to beryllium approved successful conscionable a week's time.

Newport Sands is astir 1.5 miles agelong (Image: Getty)

In the application, onshore proprietor of the nationalist parkland sought support for the demolition and replacement of the existing nationalist convenience block, the instauration of an entree ramp and steps to southbound slipway, the erection of a formation wheelchair retention building, and works to the existing car park, including caller wage and show machines, astatine Newport Sands PCNP Car Park, Golf Course Road.

The works see an other 52 car parking spaces implicit the 43 presently there, on with an summation successful disabled parking spaces.

Last year, the tide turned connected a formation parking contented astatine Newport Sands aft Pembrokeshire Coast National Park Authority enactment an extremity to formation parking owed to information concerns, limiting vehicular entree to the formation to exigency services and those requiring indispensable access.

The plans are expected to beryllium approved successful conscionable a week's clip (Image: Getty)

A petition was aboriginal launched demanding a U-turn, claiming an outright prohibition volition person an adverse effect connected a wide cross-section of formation users, including disabled visitors.

A study for committee members up of the December 4 gathering says: "The connection volition effect successful improved and enhanced services for visitors to the Newport Sands car parkland by providing amended formation access, intelligibly laid retired parking bays and pedestrian zones, improved nationalist convenience facilities, and landscaping enhancements crossed the site.

"The proviso of a changing places facility, formation wheelchair retention and caller entree ramp are apt to assistance successful enhancing entree for wheelchair users to this site.

"Overall, officers see that the proposals are acceptable and that the strategy arsenic a full protects the peculiar qualities of the National Park whilst delivering due enhancements to this important assemblage facility."