Inside Britain’s first ‘six star resort’ which will include 50 luxury treehouses, more than 100 villas and…a pub

BRITAIN's first six-star resort - where holidaymakers will stay in luxury treehouses or villas - has been given the green light.

Camel Creek Resort has finally been granted permission after being rebuffed after objectors said it would have too large an impact on the local economy and damage the environment.

But now Cornwall Council's planning committee has backed the plan for the luxury 90-acre resort.

The scheme will have 236 holiday lodges, a leisure park, convention centre, exhibition space as well as shops, restaurants and a pub.

It will be set around picturesque lakes where guests will be able to stay in one of 106 villas, 46 treehouses or 84 courtyard homes.

The resort is the brainchild of John Broome, former owner of Alton Towers theme park and one of the parties behind a failed Battersea Power station bid.

He said: "If the Camel Creek Resort is developed there will be 997 jobs on site and at all levels as befits a luxury resort."

Mr Broome had first mooted the plan more than a year ago but got a hostile reception from locals.

But planners gave the holiday centre the nod after weighing up its impact on the surrounding area.

Officials said it was an "expansion of an existing tourism facility".

It will be sited next to the site of the old Crealy Cornwall adventure park between Wadebridge and St Columb. Mr Broome rebranded it Camel Creek Adventure Park this year and aims to plough £20million into the park itself in an ambitious bid to make it the UK's leading family attraction.

At present it has fun rides for children including log flumes, a 5D simulator experience and Viking Warrior boat ride - but only five holiday homes.

Agreeing to the new six-star resort, planning committee chairman Rob Nolan said the"extent of the harm associated with the development can be controlled through the imposition of conditions and planning obligations which will secure mitigation". He vowed that the council would impose a series of legally-binding conditions on developers to ensure that the scheme went ahead as planned.

Objectors fear the scheme will damage the environment and have questioned its sustainability.

St Issey Parish Council said the development is "of too large a scale to be positioned on this site, will have too large a negative impact on the local economy".

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