by Chris Malone
A caravan park is set to learn its fate after it was decided that a government inspector will make the final decision on changes to restrictions placed on it.
Maldon District Council had imposed a limit of 28 days on those wishing to stay at Eastland Meadows Country Park, the Maldon Standard reported.
However, the owners are hoping to have it overturned and will welcome the official adjudicator after its February application was turned down by the local authority.
The council is reportedly worried that the site could be used for permanent accommodation if the regulations are relaxed.
This would “reduce the tourism potential and attractiveness of the site in the long term and would set an adverse precedent within the district for other similar caravan parks to respond in a competitive tourist location”, it claimed, according to the newspaper.
Although a date for the hearing is yet to be set, a government official will now have to visit the site and gather evidence before coming to a final decision on its future.
Meanwhile, BBC News has reported that one Northamptonshire couple are planning to visit 27 countries in their caravan to celebrate their honeymoon.
