A SECOND site for Land Rover Experience is to be created in Craven.

Land Rover Experience North Yorkshire, now based at Broughton Hall, Skipton, was one of the first seven centres in the UK designed to provide tuition over ‘a range of challenging surfaces as well as providing a focal point for professional driver training, corporate hospitality, team building events and family days’.

Permission has now been given by Craven District Council for a second centre to be created at the Coniston Hotel and Estate, Coniston Cold, where the business was originally until it moved to Broughton in 2015.

The new centre at Coniston Cold will take over a building originally used to house a falconry centre, which has not been used for several years, is close to the Coniston Shooting Ground, and will have a shared access road with the shooting ground.

In an officer’s report, the proposal is considered acceptable in policy terms as well as in terms of design and visual impact. It also meets requirements for access, drainage and biodiversity.

The scheme includes the building of a new corporate building and workshop which will be timber clad so to look like existing barns in the area.