about this application

 

The application relates to a full application for proposals to enhance tourist accommodation and facilities at Forest Holidays, Beddgelert to deliver overall improvements to the site by way of relinquishment of 85 caravan and camping pitches in lieu of an additional 22 year-round, self-contained, self-catering holiday cabins, erection of a new reception and café building and overall improvements in terms of additional landscape planting and biodiversity enhancement.
 

Forest Holidays is an existing tourist accommodation site on the edge of the village of Beddgelert, providing a mixture of touring caravan and camping pitches, together with log cabins. Forest Holidays offers a unique and special way to enjoy the forest and help people reconnect with nature. The land at their sites is managed for conservation and to create spaces in nature for people to stay. Forest Holidays offers opportunities for people to discover the wonders of nature and help people experience and reconnect with forests, each other and rural communities.
 

Forest Holidays Beddgelert is one of 13 sites run by Forest Holidays throughout the UK. Forest Holidays create forest experiences for all the family an encourage guests to explore the rural communities where their sites are located.
 

The application at Forest Holidays in Beddgelert forms part of a wider visitor recreation masterplan for Beddgelert, prepared jointly by the applicant, Forest Holidays and Roberts Group, the owners of Cae Du and Cae Canol campsite in Beddgelert. The visitor recreation masterplan includes two separate planning applications; this one at Forest Holidays, and the second at Cae Du/Cae Canol by Roberts Group.
 

The aim of the visitor recreation masterplan would be to develop and enhance the tourist accommodation provision within the village of Beddgelert by expanding the provision of holiday cabins at Forest Holidays, in lieu of existing touring caravan and camping pitches, and improving and expanding the provision of touring caravan and camping pitches at Cae Du and Cae Canol. This would ensure that expanding the holiday cabins at Forest Holidays would not lead to an overall loss of touring caravan and camping pitches in the village, as additional pitches would be proposed at Cae Du and Cae Canol campsite.
 

The visitor recreation masterplan would also seek to improve and upgrade the multi-user route which runs alongside Forest Holidays, into Beddgelert.
 

The proposals at both sites seek to deliver significant environmental improvements by way of landscape planting and biodiversity enhancement.