The fairways on the western side of the Haven holiday park have been earmarked for the new caravan pitches along with open space, access, landscaping and other associated works.

The redevelopment is set to cost up to £10 million and will create up to 100 jobs once fully operational.

Since the initial proposals were made public last year, the applicant has proposed further measures around traffic concerns including road widening to provide an additional wide lane of carriageway extending north towards the check-in location within the site.

Planners reported that this will, in effect, create three lanes for a section of the internal access and road network as well as additional emergency access points for the park.

The report said: “The third lane will allow two lanes of traffic to access the site and continue towards the check-in location providing additional internal queuing/ storage for around 30 cars.”

Ayrshire Roads Alliance had initially objected to the plans but removed its opposition once it had examined the mitigations put forward by the park.

A total of 223 objections were sent to South Ayrshire Council, none of which have been considered by planners to ‘merit refusal of this application’.

The planning officer’s report stated: “The proposal is considered to represent an acceptable promotion of tourism and tourist accommodation and an acceptable growth of an existing rural tourism business.”

Councillors on the panel approved the application.