Caravan park expansion gets green light

Tourism in Cumbria has been boosted after plans for a £2 million holiday park expansion were given the go-ahead.

Port Haverigg Holiday Village’s capacity will increase by 50 per cent and include a cafe, tourist information centre and public toilets.

The 190-caravan site will see a 100 static caravan expansion as well as pitches for 20 motor homes, 30 touring caravans and 30 camping pitches.

The site, which is within a short distance of the Hodbarrow nature reserve, will also include landscaping to help support the area’s wildlife.

Co-owner Steve Attwood said new jobs could be created, adding: “It has taken two-and-a-half years to get this far. It is a major development but planning was the biggest hurdle.

“It should benefit the local economy, people who have saved to come on holiday will spend money in the shops, the garage. It goes right down the line.

“I am ecstatic, it has taken so long we opened the bubbly. I am over the moon.”
Work on the site will begin in spring and Mr Attwood says he hopes the area for touring caravans could be completed by early summer.

But the area for static caravans will take longer due to work on a sewage system.

Planning approval comes just months after Mr Attwood unveiled proposals to transform a 20-acre site adjacent to the caravan park into an entertainment mecca including a dry-ski slope, bowling alley, driving range and crazy golf.