Plans for three new holiday lets at popular Pembrokeshire attraction Folly Farm have been submitted to county planners.
Folly Farm managing director Chris Ebsworth, through agent A D Architectural Design Consultants Ltd, is seeking Pembrokeshire County Council permission to demolish nearby house Highcroft and replace it with three holiday lets.
Folly Farm Holiday Park is part of the well-known Folly Farm Adventure Park and Zoo on the outskirts of Begelly.
The attraction features exotic and farmyard animals, games, fair rides and adventure playgrounds, and was named Best Day Out in Wales in 2015.
A supporting statement says Folly Farm has expanded in recent years by creating a holiday park where visitors can stay and enjoy the attraction.
Of the latest proposals, it says: “To the right of the holiday park are three detached bungalows, all of which belong to Folly Farm, with our proposals involving demolishing the dwelling (known as Highcroft) and utilising the entire site into creating three proposed holiday units with their own private parking areas and amenity spaces.”
It adds: “The size of the existing dwelling in relation to the overall site is mis-proportionate and there is at present an excessive area of garden area which isn’t utilised, therefore a proposal such as ours would make better use of the land.
“The entire dwelling and the adjacent workshop will be demolished as part of the proposal with the entire site open to the proposed development.”
It goes on to say: “The Folly Farm Holiday Park is an ever-growing venture, and the addition of three units would be beneficial to the business, whilst making better use of the existing land.”
County planners will decide the application at a later date.
In 2023, the Pembrokeshire attraction celebrated its 35th birthday after starting as a dairy farm’s modest diversification.
More than half a million visitors from across the UK and beyond visit Folly Farm each year, while the founders’ grandchildren remain part of its family-run team.
The park’s milestones include opening its indoor vintage fairground in 1996, now the largest of its kind in Europe, and welcoming its first zoo animals in 2002.
Folly Farm welcomed Wales’ only giraffes in 2009, then celebrated the birth of a black rhino calf named Glyndwr in 2020, in tribute to late founder Glyn Williams.
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