Stay and play at De Vere Cameron House, Dunbartonshire - 11th Aug 2004

De Vere Cameron House has its own 9 hole golf course - 'The Wee Demon' - situated overlooking the loch.

It is a cleverly designed and challenging course, even for low handicap players, with 2 holes surrounded by water, some long and tricky par 3's and a magnificent first par 5.

Several of Scotland's most famous golf courses are within easy reach of Cameron House and many of the local courses are accessible to non-members.

GREEN LIGHT FOR FIVE STAR RESORT AT LOCH LOMOND:

De Vere Resort Ownership Ltd, the UK’s largest five-star operator, has received full planning permission to build a £50 million world-class golf and leisure resort on a 300-acre site by Loch Lomond, Scotland.

The Carrick at Cameron House will be located just over a mile north of De Vere’s Cameron House Hotel and comprise 96 five-star time ownership properties – 78 lodges and 18 apartments within mansion houses (a new concept for De Vere Resort Ownership Ltd), a championship-standard all-season golf course, world class spa and extensive leisure facilities. One third of the development will be committed to a nature reserve for the protection and enhancement of local wildlife.

De Vere Resort Ownership Ltd will be appointing local contractors wherever possible. Craig Mitchell, Managing Director of De Vere Resort Ownership Ltd, anticipates that most if not all jobs during the construction and eventual management of the resort will be created locally:

"There will be nowhere else in Scotland like The Carrick at Cameron House. The resort will be home to a luxurious resort in a spectacular setting, within easy reach of both Edinburgh and Glasgow," he said. "The fact that we have been given the go-ahead to create the resort in an area that already boasts an internationally renowned golf course and has been afforded the title of Scotland’s first National Park, makes us very proud."

The full build schedule will be completed in 2006 with construction commencing in May 2004 for the superior sand-backed golf course. The first phase of luxury two- and three-bedroom lodges and the mansion houses will commence in August.

The public-access 18-hole golf course (par 71) has been designed by internationally acclaimed course architect, Doug Carrick, and will be shaped to preserve and enhance the beauty of the existing landscape, affording spectacular and unrivalled views of Loch Lomond.

At the core of the leisure development will be a world class spa and several bar/restaurant options. There will also be a variety of external recreational facilities. This element of the resort is due to be operational in 2006.

Straddling the Highland Boundary Fault, the Midross Estate on which The Carrick on Loch Lomond will lie, borders the Caledonian Forest within Scotland’s first National Park, an area of outstanding natural beauty.

The Loch Lomond Resort will be the fourth time ownership development in the De Vere portfolio. The group also has Cameron House (since 1996), Slaley Hall, Northumberland (since 1998), and Belton Woods, Lincolnshire (since 1999).

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