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Scottish caravan park granted ten-pitch site extension

Caravanning is particularly popular in Scotland

by Jack Beresford

The development of ten new caravan pitches at the popular Cloak Farm Caravan Park at Catterline in the Aberdeenshire region of Scotland will go ahead as planned.

It follows the news that the proposal has won approval from the Kincardine and Mearns Area Committee, after a meeting of officials last week.

Under the plans, the caravan park area will be extended by 4,600 square metres, which is roughly the size of a small football pitch.

The decision comes despite objections from members of the public and the Catterline, Kinneff and Dunnottar Community Council who were concerned that the surrounding landscape and access road would be severely disrupted by the development.

However, according to the Kincardineshire Observer, Aberdeenshire Council members were satisfied with the application, with Councillor Agnew among those backing the plans.

“I can’t see anything in the application that it can be validly refused for,” he told the news provider.

The approval of these plans came in the same week that a proposal to redevelop Stonehaven’s Queen Elizabeth caravan site received similar backing from Aberdeenshire authorities.