A HOLIDAY park where customers pay up to £125,000 for a caravan holiday home has unveiled a new reception complex built on buy local' principles.

Holgates Caravan Park, at Silverdale, has invested around one-third of a million pounds in the new development, which was designed by local architects and built by local contractors making extensive use of local materials.

The reception and office complex includes limestone quarried in Horton and roofing slates from Burlington at Kirkby-in-Furness, and boasts a number of energy-saving features aimed at reducing carbon emissions.

The building was officially opened by Soraya Hutchinson, director of leading holiday home manufacturer, Willerby, whose luxury home range, New Hampshire, is available for sale at the caravan park.

A 100-acre park that first opened as a small campsite in 1956, the holiday park is still run by the Holgate family and today it has some 500 privately-owned luxury holiday homes, plus pitches for touring caravans and tents.

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