A FRESH tourism offering is set to be available in the grounds of a Peebles hotel after a bid to build three holiday lodges was approved.

The Park, on Innerleithen Road, filed the plans with Scottish Borders Council (SBC) at the start of the year.

And last week the local authority’s planning chiefs backed the pod proposals, which are hoped to broaden the hotel’s “market appeal”.

Recommending the project’s approval, SBC planning officer Ranald Dods said: “The principle of the development is acceptable in this instance as the units would be located within the grounds of an existing hotel. A condition is recommended restricting the use of the occupation of the units to holidaymakers.