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either. As long as you keep it looking OK of course. We have a toilet block
just next to this building and a self-serve launderette on the other side.
You’ll like it here I am sure.’
    Well that was open to conjecture. On his quick
sortie before entering the reception, Charlton had thought the adjacent toilet
block to be in no better repair than the cabin, and half the machines in the
launderette looked to be broken anyway.
    ‘So, is there a club on-site, a café or a
restaurant?’
    ‘Not at present, but there soon will be.’
    Charlton couldn’t mask his amazement. The
general run-down appearance of the whole site didn’t suggest the likelihood of
any new facilities in the foreseeable future.
    I can see that you are surprised Mr Charlton,
but we have a big development coming. We are adding thirty new caravan plots
near the trees and the area between them and our existing plots will become a
nice recreation area with an open-air swimming pool. We are also creating a top
class restaurant in a lovely character stone building and all the existing
facilities here, like the launderette and reception, are being completely
overhauled.’
    ‘And when will all this happen?’ asked
Charlton.
    ‘We are a little delayed at the moment because
of a minor legal hitch, but we hope to have the restaurant up and running no
later than six months from now. A couple of vans will be moving off next week
so you could use one of their plots for now until the new plots are ready, then
you can take your pick.’
    ‘That all sounds great as long as the timescale
doesn’t drag on. I’ve been up to the marina site and they already have an
excellent restaurant, but Green Fields is a bit more secluded and I like the
idea of a pool. I wouldn’t want to bring my van and then find that the
development didn’t go ahead though. I wouldn’t want to be stuck on a tired old
site would I? I would rather take a plot at the marina than that.’
    ‘Don’t worry Mr Charlton. The delay is only
temporary. The land is already in family ownership and the restaurant will be
quick to convert. The hold up is with a legal issue impacting on funding but
we’ve moved forward on that recently and it should all be done and dusted soon.
Then it will be action stations.’
    The development sounded impressive. Perhaps 24
hours to compare the brochures and then make a decision. ‘Ah, well that’s a bit
of a problem I am afraid. For legal reasons we cannot print a brochure or
information sheets yet but in a couple of weeks they will be out. Why not come
with me and I’ll walk you around the site and fill you in on what’s going
where?’

 
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    Up in his first floor study room – once
the spare bedroom – a Google Maps satellite image was displayed on a big
plasma screen. ‘It all makes sense Dave,’ he said, pointing to what looked like
little boxes arranged higgledy piggledy , some fields
running alongside, then the roofs of a few buildings. ‘This is Green Fields
caravan site. The only way I can see to expand it is by using the fields to the
back. Those are the fields owned by the Johnson’s that are under dispute.
Archer said it was in family ownership – which it is. On that basis Mike
Johnson’s theory might not be as far fetched as you thought. Look at it this
way, if the Johnson’s stump up half of Dad’s legacy then Peter Archer gets his
funds to refurbish his site and put in his swimming pool. But without Johnson’s
fields he’s not got the land for the expansion, and how could a lovely
character stone built restaurant be created in six months?
    ‘It all sounds to me as though Johnson is right
on the button,’ he continued. ‘I looked at the marina site and as things stand
at the moment it knocks the socks off Green Fields. The vans due to be moved on
to the Lockside plots at the marina could easily be
the ones being removed from Green Fields. Peter Archer is already losing
business and it is all set to go downhill if