Five self-contained holiday units are being planned at a family-run site on the outskirts of Bridport.

The Whitehead family from Broad Road Farm, Beaminster Road is asking for the creation of three buildings on the site – parts of them from recycled materials.

Application papers say the development will include a large cabin with two double bedrooms and will use reclaimed materials from previous pig arc buildings to create two single-bed living spaces. A field shelter building is also proposed creating a double-bed room with kitchen and en suite.

The proposals, if agreed, will increase the number of car parking slots on the site from 15 to 54.

The farm already has other holiday homes, some of which have been open since 2009 using previous farm outbuildings for what is described as “high end holiday lets” known as The Coop, The Cider Room, The Pressing Room, The Farrows, The Sty, and The Pen.

Also on the site are three generations of the Whitehead family in the main farmhouse and accompanying annexe.

The most northern unit, the ‘Woodland Cabin’, is proposed with an L-shaped roof with two gable ends, to be constructed largely of reclaimed timber cladding and decking, producing a rustic feel, with a reclaimed galvanised corrugated steel roof, and glazed doors and windows with steel frames.

To screen this building from surrounding views, the family is proposing to approximately double the size of the area of tree and scrub planting surrounding the existing accommodation, ‘The Coop’.

The Cabin is proposed to include two self-contained holiday accommodation units and is expected to be of roughly comparable height to that of ‘The Coop’.

The other unit, East of the existing cluster of buildings is referred to as the ‘Pig Arcs’. This will be a pair of independent accommodation units with curved, reclaimed galvanised steel roofs, joined in the middle by a small section of flat roof covering a plant room.

Agents say this is the most unique of the proposals, with the semi-circular form “drawing from a classical farming vernacular.”

The agents say the South-most unit, the ‘Field Shelter’, is of a ‘pent shed’ form above a single sloped reclaimed galvanized corrugated steel roof and draws from both the existing cowsheds.

The building will also use reclaimed timber decking and cladding with reclaimed telegraph poles in the building structure.

The application, Dorset Council reference 2022/02251, is open for public comment until May 27th.