by Chris Malone
A £2 million expansion at Port Haverigg Holiday Village will see the caravan park increase its capacity by 50 per cent.
According to the News and Star, the Copeland site is set to benefit from a large improvement programme after it was given permission to add 100 static caravans, 20 motor home pitches and space for 30 touring caravans and 30 tents.
Part of the project will see the 190-caravan site add a cafe, tourist information centre and public toilets.
It will also create jobs in the area and see the site benefit from landscaping with a view to encouraging wildlife to the area, assisting the nearby Hodbarrow nature reserve.
Co-owner Steve Attwood told the newspaper that it may have taken two-and-a-half years, but that things should move more swiftly now planning permission has been granted.
“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,” he said.
“I am ecstatic, it has taken so long we opened the bubbly. I am over the moon.”
