OPEN DAY PLANNED AS REVAMP OF FORMER TERTIA TRUST SITE NEARS COMPLETION

 

Rural idyll? Oakwood Drive at Thorpe Park, Humberston 

THE finishing touches are this week being put to landscaping of the £4-million Oakwood Drive extension to Humberston's Thorpe Park holiday park ahead of a proposed open afternoon between 2pm and 5pm when guests will be able to go walkabout. 

The operators, Haven Leisure, have laid  turf rather than an artificial plastic substitute and retained as many trees as possible. 

The site, at the bottom end of South Sea Lane was fomerly run by the Tertia Trust which, despite a bumper injection of grant aid, was wound up after the controlling  consortium of councillors  - Chris Shaw, Alex Baxter and the late Mick Burnett - found themselves out of their depth.

Subsequently, vandals ran amok and trashed the site, until Haven Holidays took back the lease and gave it a new future.

The caravans are not for those of slender means, with prices starting at £59,995 and rising to £100,000-plus for de luxe models.

                                         

Real turf is being laid - not the plastic alternative