Plans to create an £80million state-of-the art holiday park on the outskirts of Newquay have been revealed.

The scheme involves building up to 800 holiday units on 67.1 hectares of undeveloped land at Colan.

The park will include lodges, fixed units and static caravans, plus a 2,000-square-metre pool complex with a water play zone.

The plans also involve a bar, restaurant, pizza deck and tea house.

And a multi-purpose venue to provide daytime wet weather activities and evening entertainment is proposed.

The wet weather facilities would be supplemented by outdoor play zones for all ages plus ropeworks, adventure golf and a picnic meadow.

A solar farm is proposed to meet the new park’s energy requirements.

A footpath link would connect the site to Quintrell Downs and the railway station.

Mango Planning and Development on behalf of of Kingsley Developments (SW) Limited and Time GB Group Limited (Trading as Royale Resorts), has submitted initial planning proposals, known as a a screening opinion.

The park would be built about one kilometre to the north-east of Quintrell Downs and 500 metres south of Colan, on the northern side of the A392.

Abe Simpson, the managing director of Kingsley Developments, said: “It has long been known that Kingsley have been seeking to develop a large-scale state-of-the-art holiday park on the outskirts of Newquay.

“We wish to develop something the local community can be proud of – an asset. Not just providing long-term, year-round employment for local residents; but an exemplar attraction where tourists will want to visit, generating more custom for the town and businesses.

“Though doing so in a way which is not damaging to our environment, that is sustainable in all ways possible.

“With cycle and pedestrian links to Newquay town centre, but also with vehicular access for thousands of visitors that does not actually reach Newquay’s highway network.

“All the while, we believe, taking pressure off the local housing market; by offering exceptional quality, purpose-designed holiday accommodation for visitors – meaning local housing stock will not so readily be offered on Air BnB and other holiday rental portals.

“We believe, with confidence and contrition, that the residential housing crisis in Newquay and its environs has been made worse by the market failure of the holiday sector to provide enough, high-quality accommodation to cater for the tourism market.

“This has pushed local families out of what would otherwise be prime local rental or open market housing.”

He said development partner Royale Resorts is “a heavyweight quality resort operator” and “committed to delivery with us”.

Mr Simpson went on: “We are holding a series of public consultation events to allow the public to engage with us as developers, and the architects of the scheme, to feed through as much local knowledge and design preference into the proposal as is commercially possible.

“Statements and advertisements will be released shortly of our first public consultation event – and we would encourage as many people as possible to attend them.”

Arfon Hughes, the managing director of Mango, said: “The intended development area comprises largely undeveloped arable land and pasture, contained by mature hedging.

“Within the boundary of the site is also deciduous woodland and a small watercourse, to which no physical development is proposed.”

He said the site is not subject to any formal landscape or ecological designation, and sits outside the impact risk zone of the Mid Cornwall Moors Site of Special Scientific Interest and the Newlyn Downs Special Area of Conservation.