Holiday park operator Parkdean wants to replace 90 campervan and touring pitches with 45 static caravans at Skipsea on the Yorkshire coast - as people seek more 'upmarket' accommodation
Agents on behalf of Parkdean Resorts state: “The applicant, as the operator of 66 holiday parks across
, has identified a trend towards holidaymakers increasingly preferring to stay in modern high-quality static caravans with a range of modern amenities compared with touring caravans/tents.”'s rapidly eroding coastline, but the plans say even those put up closest to the coast “will still remain a very safe distance of some 260 to 280m away from the cliff edge”.
At a rate of 1.25 metres of land being lost to the sea a year, and including a 30m buffer zone, the statics should be safe for over 180 years.The owners of Skipsea Sands Holiday Park, Skipsea have applied for change of use of land to replace 90 touring caravan pitches with 45 static holiday caravans.
The applicants say benefits include a drop in traffic and a boost for the local economy by creating more year-round jobs
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