A bid to build 12 wigwam “glamping” lodges at a garden machinery business are expected to be turned down by national park planners today (Wednesday).

The application, by William Staniland, proprietor of Jameston-based Brumwells Garden Machinery, to build 12 upmarket holiday lodges and car parking was adjourned for a site visit at the January meeting of the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park’s Development Management Committee.

The plan had been recommended for refusal on the grounds that new camping sites were not permitted within the park and the wigwams would be visually intrusive.

Ashley Staniland, one of two sons working at the family business, said: “If the business collapses we, like 95 per cent of our friends, will have to leave the area. It’s not right that most young people have to leave their home county to look for work.”

But the plan is again recommended for refusal at March 4’s meeting following the site visit.