The village of Bream, near Smalltown, has featured heavily in the national media this week after The Scum ‘news’paper ran an article highlighting the plight of the holiday destination following the takeover of Don’tins by Chernobyl-by-Sea Power Station.
The Scum describes Bream as ‘desolate, derelict and dreary’ which should be enough to put off any remaining potential holiday visitors.
Owners of businesses in Bream are currently mounting a legal challenge to Sadgebore District Council’s decision to allow Chernobyl-by-Sea Power Station to take over Don’tins, closing it down to visitors and using it to house hundreds of construction workers instead.
Sadgebore District Council agreed to the move and said planning permission was not needed to convert the site nor was an environmental impact assessment required.
However, Bream business owners have hit back claiming that this decision will have a severe impact on the number of visitors to Bream and will therefore see a decline in trade for other businesses in the area.
Don’tins was popular with visitors, who often took to DripAdvisor to detail their enjoyable experiences at the camp, with most managing to endure conditions for anywhere between one night and one week. This led to a regular change over of grockles, with an estimated 3000 visitors to Don’tins per week, and helped increase trade in the area, whereas the new permanent residents won’t be going all out to spend their cash in local shops, bars and amusements.
A spokessandcastle for the business owners said “We have submitted a Certificate of Lawfulness to Sadgebore District Council, because we don’t believe this site can legally be used for residential accommodation.
No planning application was submitted for a change of use and the original permission would have been for tourism use only. If Sadgebore can allow Don’tins to change from holiday use to residential then we don’t see any reason why we can’t do the same with our own sites.
If we turn all our holiday.parks into residential estates Bream will become a massive metropolis and we can then apply for city status.”
Meanwhile The Scum article mentions that Bream currently gives the ‘impression of a resort that has seen better days’, with ‘a parade of shops looking very sad‘ and is summed up as an ‘eerie ghost town‘. Which is fair.