The Rise of the UK Holiday Village
£50m North West Holiday Village Development Plans To Rival The Traditional Model As It Supports New Business, Get Kids Back To Nature & Drives Biodiversity On The English Coastline.
hotel designed to sit within the landscape, complete with a grass roof and 450 lodges set within both mature and new woodland, alongside canals and wetland walkways.
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It also includes a combination of unique visitor attractions ranging from an Artisan Marketplace to an Immersive Wildlife Centre where woodland walks are combined with 21st Century technology to deliver a state-of-the-art visitor centre.
Set to be one of the most ecofriendly holiday parks ever built in the UK, the proposed £50m development, proposed to open in 2023 will include a 90-bedroom
The Artisan Marketplace will see artisans encouraged to set up shop and trade their wares. The scheme will scrap traditional rents, and instead allow Artisans to pay a percentage of their turnover instead of rent, in an attempt to encourage entrepreneurship in this innovative project.
s the country is set to embark on a summer of UK holidays, plans have been unveiled to create a brand-new eco-friendly holiday destination, Ellel Holiday Village in Lancaster, the historic North West city.
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The bold new initiative is the brainchild of Lancaster based M Capital Properties Limited, and Susie Charles, a direct descendent of the Sandeman port dynasty. The land was once part of the famous Ellel Grange estate, the former home of the Sandeman family. A commitment to plant over 30,000 trees and the achievement of a 15% biodiversity net gain is a massive step forward in moving the area to a carbon neutral area, and potentially a national first, as to date this has never been achieved in a local planning application. Rather than destroying the landscape the local Company behind the project is committed to building new micro communities and forming new habitats in which wildlife can be encouraged to thrive. www.lancmag.com
