Harcourt Sands
Harcourt Sands, owned by Renowned, closed back in 2006 resulting in over 11 hectares of land becoming an unused eyesore with the loss of 167 jobs. In 2007 vandals targeted the abandoned buildings resulting in a massive blaze that destroyed the holiday park’s entertainment complex. The site has not been occupied since, a plan emerged to turn the site into 128 residential dwellings, alongside a tourism proposal that would comprise either a 63 bed hotel or 15 holiday units.
The recent news was that the developer had given up on that plan.
The explore was one of the biggest to date being a holiday resort, not being able to walk in through the front entrance, we made our way through the bushes and straight in, taking a glimpse at the main building which had the swimming pool and slides inside, unfortunately we couldn’t get in. Taking a walk down the long windy road we saw 3 others, not knowing if it was security we decided to go a different way and took more pictures, the stumbled upon the 3 others and fortunately they were other explorers, the holiday resort was beautiful, with the sea and beach behind the resort the explore was different to the usual.
We made our way round taking pictures, after seeing smoke near one of the buildings we decided it was time to leave as we knew the resort was being demolished!
Harcourt Sands, owned by Renowned, closed back in 2006 resulting in over 11 hectares of land becoming an unused eyesore with the loss of 167 jobs. In 2007 vandals targeted the abandoned buildings resulting in a massive blaze that destroyed the holiday park’s entertainment complex. The site has not been occupied since, a plan emerged to turn the site into 128 residential dwellings, alongside a tourism proposal that would comprise either a 63 bed hotel or 15 holiday units.
The recent news was that the developer had given up on that plan.
The explore was one of the biggest to date being a holiday resort, not being able to walk in through the front entrance, we made our way through the bushes and straight in, taking a glimpse at the main building which had the swimming pool and slides inside, unfortunately we couldn’t get in. Taking a walk down the long windy road we saw 3 others, not knowing if it was security we decided to go a different way and took more pictures, the stumbled upon the 3 others and fortunately they were other explorers, the holiday resort was beautiful, with the sea and beach behind the resort the explore was different to the usual.
We made our way round taking pictures, after seeing smoke near one of the buildings we decided it was time to leave as we knew the resort was being demolished!
it’s a beautiful place!
