In what most certainly appears to be a growing trend, a Tasmanian caravan park has outlined its plan to build 20 new cabins … at the expense of camping sites.
The Apex Caravan Park at Ulverstone has lodged a development application with the Central Coast Council which would see it expand and include 20 new holiday cabins at the park’s southern end.
The main park currently holds 80 van sites and 99 powered camping sites. The proposal would reduce the van sites to 75 and the powered camping to 74 sites. The 37 powered camping spots in the main park would be replaced.
The application says the cabins will be used for short- to medium-term visitor accommodation, and not as permanent residential housing.
The Advocate newspaper reports that the designs include three different cabin floor plans, varying in bedroom numbers, a kitchen or kitchenette, and the option of a private bathroom or use of the shared toilet block.
Each will be painted a ‘light colour’, and roofed with Colorbond steel.
The application includes a survey of the little penguin colony at the park, which was carried out by Birdlife Tasmania’s Dr Perviz Marker.
Dr Perviz recommended extra planting of penguin-friendly natives, as well as removal of weeds, artificial burrows and keeping out all pets.
“Dogs and cats have been well documented in the area to cause the demise of Little Penguins,” Dr Perviz wrote.
The Advocate reports that the proposal will remain on display until it expires next Wednesday. Representations can be made to the council in that time.
If it gets given the go-ahead, the Ulverstone caravan park certainly won’t be the first to fall victim to the ‘cabin fever’ sweeping Australia.
They have the hide to knock low cost or free camping because it effects there businesses,and here they are smashing the motel industry.Oh well another park to stay well away from.Stevo.
Wonder if the hotels, motels and bed and breakfasts in the area will take exception to their cabins. Like some caravan parks seem to when free or low cost camps are seen to take there business. Maybe tassie shouldn’t be closing free and low cost camps if all caravan parks heading this way.
Who cares!…we don’t need them.
Enjoy life..don’t sweat the small stuff..!
Why wouldn’t caravan parks build more cabins. No value having caravan sites because all you read here is that Grey Nomads want to free camp and stay away from caravan parks. Maybe, the Grey Nomads through their obsession with FREE, have actually created this move Just a thought.
We, personally are not obsessed with free camping, however our motorhome is equipped with all that we need, so why should we pay for what we don`t need when there are free or low cost alternatives, that makes economic sense to me, times are changing & if park operators want a bigger slice of the pie, adapt or loose out.
Did you not read the bit about low cost camping that most people are happy to pay for. A lot of people just see what they want to and don’t look at the whole picture.
And c.p wonder why less travellers use their services.
Once again c.p are steering their own demise
We are & have been in Tassie for 4 months & have only stayed in one caravan park & that was on arrival, plenty of low cost & free camps to choose from, caravan parks have been our last choice of accommodation in the past 18 months whilst traveling & we have only spent 21 nights in total in them, the above is just another example of their greed & total disrespect for other accommodation providers .
Who cares!
We were looking for a caravan park for a couple of days stay, to the south east coast of NSW. The roadside sign read ????? Caravan Park (Can’t recall the name or place.) We were told that they only had 3 sites for vans and 2 were occupied. We checked the 3rd site and found that we would be lucky to get a 12 to 13 ft van on same.
I told the owner to get the bloody roadside sign changed.
Jay&Dee
Stayed in one caravan park in Tasmania a couple of years ago (beggared if I can remember where?), and the chap in the next site had to come under our annexe to wind the legs down on his van. I had never seen such a fire risk. We were out and gone the next morning. The Fuhrer running the park didn’t make it any more pleasant.