Park Holidays look to build 118 caravans at site in Cornwall

However, they are not looking to renew any other elements of the previous permission, which had also included a ten-bedroom hotel and spa, an extension to the existing leisure building and a new buildings with facilities.

A drop-in public consultation event will now take place in the main clubhouse at Bodmin Holiday Park, Lanivet between 4pm and 7pm on Thursday, November 7 for people to view the plans and ask questions.

This is ahead of a full planning application being submitted to Cornwall Council.

Details have been released by Savills, acting on behalf of Park Holidays UK Limited.

Bodmin Holiday Park (formerly known as Waterside Holiday Park) was acquired and rebranded by Park Holidays UK Limited in 2022. The company runs 59 caravan parks around the UK.

The site is described as being a well-established holiday park, around 6km from Bodmin and 2.5km from the village of Lanivet, set in more than 96 acres of mixed woodland and parkland.

Bodmin Holiday Park also has an indoor swimming pool, bar and restaurant, children’s play park, gym, tennis court, foot golf and three acres of fishing lakes as well as existing holiday lodge accommodation.

The site already has 70 A-frame lodges that remain fully in use and are described as a “popular tourism facility for families and visitors to the area.”

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In 2018 planning permission was granted for 118 units of holiday accommodation, to the north and east of the main facilities, and it is this area of land that will be the subject of the new planning application.

This earlier permission also included extensions and alterations to the existing facilities, including the restaurant and function suite, leisure built, multi-use hall and climbing centre, with the extension of refurbishment of the current seven-bedroom guest accommodation building to form a ten-room hotel and spa.

Also in the same permission was staff accommodation over four flats, an energy centre and grounds maintenance building, multi-use games area, tennis courts, climbing wall and children’s play areas.

However, none of these additional elements will be part of the new application, with just the holiday units to be resurrected from the now-expired 2018 permission.

Draft planning documents, yet to be formally submitted, state that the new application will look for consent for the siting of 118 static and lodge-style caravans, based on the same application site area/footprint.

The proposed site layout (Image: Savills) “Fundamentally, the development would act as an addition to the existing holiday park development with all of the holidaymakers on the site benefitting from the existing services and facilities available.

“In this sense it is important to note that the proposed layout for the 118 static and lodge-style caravans does not incorporate any new supporting buildings or infrastructure, so the development would strictly form part of the existing site,” Savills state.

The draft documents indicated that caravans would be sited in a mixture of sizes and appearances, with smaller, budget-friendly static caravans to more premium, large lodge units.

It is estimated that visitors to the 118 holiday caravans would bring an additional £2.2million into the local economy each year.

The lodge development would operate 12 months of the year.

Members of staff would be on-call 24 hours a day, CCTV would be installed and vehicle entry and exit would be controlled by a security barrier.

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Additional planning permission already relates to the western section of the site, which has extant planning permission for a 105-bedroom spa hotel with associated facilities, and 36 lodges granted on November 25, 2010 (PA10/05936).

This permission was itself a renewal of earlier permission granted and in 2014 a Lawful Development Certificate was issued, to confirm development of the lodges had commenced and the planning permission as a whole had been implemented.

The type of golf lodges was then amended in January 2023 to allow ‘caravan lodges’ instead, and these 36 lodges are due to be developed this year. The 105-bedroom spa hotel remains extant at this time, and is described as also being subject to future construction.

Planning permission is known as ‘extant’ when a ‘material start’ has been made.

The draft application documents can be viewed at https://savillsglobal.box.com/v/BodminHolidayPark

Savills and Park Holidays have said: “We are holding a Public Consultation Event to obtain the views of the community on the proposed development.

“During this event you will be able to view plans of the proposals and speak with key consultants involved with the project.

“Anyone with an interest in the proposals is invited to drop in at any point, with no requirement to register.

“If you are un able to drop in but would like to make comments on the proposals please contact philippa.davey@savills.com”