THE owners of a Charmouth holiday park have had their appeal to devel op the site with timber lodges dis missed. Mr and Mrs J Ireland, who own Newland's Holiday Park, were told by planning inspectors to forget their plans, because of the harm it would do to the character and appearance of the area. The development proposed by the Irelands included siting 18 timber lodges on the part of the site currently used for 60 touring units, siting 23 static caravans and 13 timber lodges on the part of the site with planning consent for 30 timber lodges and retaining 81 static caravans on the part of the site currently used for 86 static caravans. The planning inspectors' report said that much detailed work had gone in to the proposed re-organisation and that the owners promised an overall reduction in the number of pitches, concentrating on quality of accommodation instead of quantity. They argued that timber lodges would be more discreet and would lessen the visual impact of the use of the area. The planning inspector's report, howev er, did not agree. It said: "This tightly-spaced group of substantial, solid looking lodges, perma nently superimposed on the hillside, would have a powerfully formal visual impact." The inspector concludes: "I recognise the desirability of continuing to improve the holiday park and in doing, maintain ing the health of the local economy. "But I am also very conscious of the overriding priority - to protect the beau ty of the landscape from adverse change."