Center Parcs Planning First Holiday Village in Scotland

Popular holiday and adventure village Center Parcs is looking to open its first site in Scotland, with full planning proposals due to be submitted next year.

It would be the company’s seventh site across the UK and Ireland and would feature all of the traditional Center Parcs attractions including retail and restaurant village and indoor water park. The plan for the Scottish site – near Hawick, in the Scottish Borders area would cost an estimated £350m and would include the building of 700 holiday lodges.

Chief executive Colin McKinlay told the BBC: “This is a tremendously exciting project and offers the opportunity to transform leisure and tourism in the Scottish Borders.

“Center Parcs is an exceptionally popular destination for families in the UK and Ireland and there is robust demand to support a seventh village.

“Throughout our history, we have demonstrated that a Center Parcs village provides significant economic benefits locally, regionally and nationally.”

“We already have many guests from Scotland come to our villages in England and this affords the opportunity for more people from Scotland to enjoy a fantastic Center Parcs experience,” he said.