Plans for dozens of holiday lodges on a farm in rural Leicestershire have received more than 300 objections.
The application if approved would see a holiday village, including up to 45 lodges, built on Langborrow Farm, on Launde Road, one-and-a-half miles to the east of Tilton on the Hill.
Plans also include a gatehouse, bike rental and shop building along with a cafe/restaurant as well as indoor and outdoor leisure facilities and a new access from and on to Oakham Road, the Local Democracy Reporting Service (LDRS) said.
Applicant Brayden Cooper said the holiday village was “not a high-intensity events venue but a low-density eco-resort designed to connect with nature”.
The area is adjacent to the Tilton Railway Cutting, a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) where Sir David Attenborough first discovered his love for natural history, according to Leicestershire and Rutland Wildlife Trust.
The wider area itself featured in the broadcaster’s 2020 documentary, A Life on Our Planet.
Resident Kay Highfield, 68, told the LDRS she planned to speak against the development when it is considered by Harborough District Council’s planning committee.
She claimed the application, which is on a former chicken farm site, “would be like Center Parcs on our doorstep”.
“The reason why we live here is because it’s totally rural, its tranquil,” she said.
“All this will be gone. And there will be huge amounts of traffic.
“What [the application] doesn’t address is the safety of all these people that are going to go on site, there’s a cycle hire shop on site.
“So people will get on their bikes and they will come out onto the Oak Road and they will go up on the small rural lanes, and they are so dangerous.”
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