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Quality Glamping Cabins and BBQ Huts HOME OF THE FIRE CAGE Live Fire Cooking Home • Catering Restaurants Festival Glamping Achieve all year round bookings, with our unique luxury glamping cabins EN-SUITE AVAILABLE • OFF-GRID OR ECO OPTIONS BESPOKE SOLUTIONS • FULLY INSULATED AND HEATING OPTIONS 01389 734572 info@logspan.com www.logspan.com Savage BBQ savage_bbq Savage BBQ @savage_bbq 0115 8990323 sAvAGEbbq.CO.uk 28 WWW.OPENAIRBUSINESS.COM
GLAMPSITES CASE STUDY Brook Cottage Shepherd Huts A start-up five hut retreat on the border of the Snowdonia National Park With backgrounds in fine art, Mark Barrow and Jonathan Gooders moved to the countryside and renovated a cottage before turning their attentions to hand-building shepherd, poachers and gypsy huts. Their adults-only site launched in late 2021 and sprang to fame after being featured on BBC’s Interior Design Masters. We talk to Mark. What’s your back story – your life before glamping? Both Jonathan and I have fine art backgrounds – Jonathan is a painter and sculptor and I specialise in modern British art and original vintage movie posters (www. picturepalacemovieposters.co.uk). We also ran a bespoke conservation picture framing business in Wimbledon for over 15 years, dealing with top West End galleries and museums. What made you decide to start offering glamping accommodation? We had decided on a lifestyle change and knew we wanted to move to the country (I grew up in Gloucestershire). After buying and renovating a cottage, we started the build of the huts, which in total took just under two years. We opened in November 2021. How did you research the business before entering it? We spent around six months researching the market; what was already available and how we could use our skill sets to create something unique. Tell us about your location and site We’re based just outside Pwllheli on the glorious Lynn Peninsula in North Wales, near the border of Snowdonia National Park, with the famous Italianesque village of Portmeirion on the doorstep, in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. Each of our five hand-built huts overlooks our own private lake, which is host to an array of wildlife, with uninterrupted far-reaching views to Yr Eifl (The Rivals) mountains in the distance. How did you tackle getting planning? We initially put in a pre-application document, which received a favourable response, then after purchasing the house applied for full planning with a 20 page supporting document. There was a slight issue after planning had been provisionally granted about a floodplain nearby (which had never in reality flooded), so we had to adjust the placing of the huts, but in fact this worked out better anyway as each hut now has a view of the mountain range and the lake. How did you finance the project? Mainly with our own funds from the sale of our previous house and a loan via the Development Bank of Wales. What glamping accommodation do you offer and why did you choose it? We have five hand-built (by us) huts; one WWW.OPENAIRBUSINESS.COM 29
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