Harleys Public House, at Sea Breeze caravan park on Newport Road in Hemsby, has been granted planning permission to demolish an existing toilet block and replace it with an extension housing a restaurant, kitchen and new toilets.

The pub, which sits at the heart of the caravan park, already serves food and drink to holidaymakers as well as people living in the village.

It reopened last March after standing disused for several years.

Sea Breeze caravan park in Hemsby. (Image: Google Maps)

A report written by planning officals said that an earlier extension at the same site was destroyed by a fire in 2019 and that the latest plans would essentially reinstate and upgrade that facility.

The council's environmental health team raised no objection but insisted on details of the kitchen extraction system being agreed, as they warned that poorly-vented cooking fumes could cause a nuisance for people using the site.

Highways officers, emergency planners, the Natural Environment Team and Hemsby Parish Council all raised no objections.

The application had faced three objections from members of the public, however, who argued there are already "enough food outlets" in the area and said another restaurant would simply thin out custom for existing businesses in a time of declining tourism.

One representation in support said the new restaurant would break up a "monopoly" of existing outlets nearby and said that with caravan parks now able to open 12 months of the year, there is a need for more year-round food options.

The bar will mark one year since opening with an Elvis anniversary show on Saturday, March 14.

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