PLANS for a new children’s adventure farm park in Clacton have been welcomed as a huge boost for tourism.

Penny Smith has submitted plans to create Hasty’s Adventure Park at the Smith Farms site, in West Road, next to Clacton Airfield and Miller’s Barn Golf Park.

The five-hectare site is made up of grassland, arable fields and a fishing lake, which was previously used as a gravel extraction site in the early 1980s.

Read the full story in the Clacton Gazette, out now.