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Controversial holiday park gets off the ground
A controversial £110 million holiday village is set to go ahead after the Welsh Assembly signed off a £14.5 million funding package. A further £4 million has been confirmed from Finance Wales.
Work will begin ‘immediately’ on Bluestone leisure village which could create 900 jobs in Pembrokeshire.
The project has been the subject of much controversy, being located primarily within The Pembrokeshire Coast National Park.
The development was given the final all clear from the House of Lords last year, following a series of court appeals by the Council for National Parks.
Bluestone anticipate the holiday village will bring in up to 100,000 new high value staying visitors annually, while the two new all weather facilities a sub tropical water world and snow centre are each anticipated to attract 250,000 day visitors a year, with the capacity to accommodate one million visitors.
A Friends of the Earth spokeswoman said tourism in the county should focus on the area's unspoilt coastline.
The first phase - including 235 log cabins and a water park - will open in June 2008. Phase two including the snow centre is expected to begin in 2009.
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