A golf club and holiday park in Llanrhystud has applied for retrospective planning permission to keep 36 caravans and 15 lodges where they were built.

The caravans and lodges at Penrhos Park were built after planning permission was granted back in 2019.

However, planning documents said the caravans and lodges were not built in the layout approved by Ceredigion County Council.

Penrhos Park has now applied to retain the current layout.

Planning documents said: “The 36 static caravans were originally sited in four rows with two spine roads servicing them.

“In comparison, the static caravans have been positioned perpendicular to each other along two spine roads.

“The changes are not so much in relation to their location but more so to do with the way they are orientated.”

The lodges are also laid out differently to what was approved, following a different orientation on the land, and encroaching on to land not part of the original application.

Penrhos Park said the caravans and lodges “generate a financial boost and result in a year-wide positive impact on neighbouring businesses in Llanrhystud.”

Objectors to the scheme during a pre-planning consultation said they were not consulted during the original application to extend the caravans, and believed “that the valley where the caravans are situated has been negatively impacted by the caravans which has also impacted on local wildlife.”

The objector said that the “additional caravans have resulted in the clubhouse being extended which results in more noise being heard from their property”, and that “caravan owners have installed lighting which causes light pollution.”

Concerns were also raised that a “bridleway has been made into a road used by vehicles.”

Ceredigion County Council has highlighted the scheme through a public notice as it is classed as a major scale development.

Representations on the plans can be made to the council by 16 April.

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