South Lakeland Parks are a cluster of nine holiday parks based in the English Lake District and Morecambe Bay area. These parks are: White Cross Bay, Limefitt, Fallbarrow, Todber, Ocean Edge, Regent, Gatebeck, Marina, and Hawthorne.
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South Lakeland Parks specialise in developing and operating holiday parks with caravans and timber lodge accommodation. The parks include holiday home hire and holiday home sales, plus their Fallbarrow site has 2 holiday cottages on site.
History
South Lakeland Parks was established in 1988 and was previously known as South Lakeland Caravans until June 2006. The parks promote three different styles of holiday - lakeside (Parks based in the Lake District), countryside (Parks based in the Troutbeck Valley) and seaside (Parks based in the Morecambe Bay areas).
In June 2006, LGV [3] acquired South Lakeland Caravans Limited, which was rebranded as South Lakeland Parks ("SLP"). SLP predominantly operates the owner-occupier model, generating most of its revenue from the sale of caravans and lodges and is one of the country's leading providers of timber-lodge units, a market which has demonstrated high growth over recent years.
LGV had a strong management team led by CEO, Graham Hodgson and LGV supplemented the team with the appointments of a Finance Director and Martin Leppard as Non-Executive Chairman. Since LGV took over the group, SLP have embarked on a £3 million investment programme to upgrade the quality of the parks.
Improvements across the nine parks include new timber lodge developments, new internet café facilities, an indoor swimming pool and better facilities for disabled guests. In November 2007, LGV successfully sold South Lakeland to White Ocean Leisure for £125 million, generating a return of more than twice its money in 17 months.
Locations
South Lakeland Parks consists of nine different locations across the Lake District and Morecambe Bay area. These parks include White Cross Bay and Fallbarrow which are in lakeside locations both overlooking Lake Windermere, Limefitt, Gatebeck and Todber which are in countryside locations and Regent, Ocean Edge, Marina and Hawthorne which are in seaside locations.
In 2011 Fallbarrow opened 'The Lakeside', its latest lodge development, consisting of 25 high specification luxury lodges, with many benefiting from beautiful views of Windermere.
Conservation
South Lakeland Parks are members of Nurture Lakeland, a Cumbrian conservation charity. South Lakeland Parks, and their visitors, raise a lot of money for local conservation work and work with Nurture Lakeland to improve their own environmental practices. South Lakeland Parks is working with Nurture Lakeland to raise £50,000 for the ‘Miles without Stiles’ project which aims to provide 39 accessible walking routes.
All of their Lake District Parks have been awarded the David Bellamy Gold Award for the commitment and demonstration of concern for the environment. In addition the parks are located in protected woodland and countryside areas.