Loopy golf is being teed up as a vacationer season draw for a Callander resort.
The Dreadnought Resort is hoping to make short-term use of its backyard for the exercise together with a kids’s play space.
David Ryan has submitted a planning software to Loch Lomond and Trossachs Nationwide Park planners.
Brokers for the resort stated: “The short-term nature of the use is each by way of its seasonality and since the applicant could be content material that the Nationwide Park granted this for simply the 2022 season, in order that the impacts from the use may be judged previous to an software for everlasting seasonal use being thought-about afterward this yr.
“The applicant has consent to make use of the backyard for the proposed makes use of, and for his clients to make use of the prevailing resort automotive park on the rear, though most of his clients park elsewhere and stroll to the location. The use encompasses putting in short-term loopy golf holes, that are pinned to the bottom, however in any other case sit on prime of the grass, and putting in wood play gear, which must be mounted into the bottom for security. Not one of the installations are everlasting, and the applicant has no intention for them to be, and so they can all be eliminated as soon as the season is over.
“The season will run to the tip of October 2022. The enterprise will function seven days per week from 9am till 7pm.”
The brokers stated that the enterprise would run underneath the identical title because it had final yr - Pee Wee’s Loopy Golf.
A lot of the 2021 clients have been stated to be pre-arranged teams and small events of folks that complied with Covid laws then in drive. Whereas the intention could be the identical in 2022, stroll in clients would even be welcomed.
“On a very good day in 2021, the applicant had 10 clients on web site at anybody time,” added the brokers. “He doesn't anticipate to have any greater than 20 at anybody time in 2022 and, as soon as at this stage, he'll invite folks to e-book a time slot and to return again afterward.
“There was all the time at the very least one member of workers on web site, generally two, in 2021 and this would be the identical in 2022.
“There are not any residential properties shut by. The positioning is bounded to the east by the resort, west by Tesco Categorical, and to the north by public bathrooms within the Station Street automotive park. The Riverside Inn lies on the opposite facet of Leny Street.”
Park planners are anticipated to make a advice on the appliance sooner or later.