A FARM which lost its livestock to foot-and-mouth disease has a second attempt today at persuading national park planners to give their blessing to its diversification plans.

Ashes Farm, near Hawes, North Yorkshire, already has permission to use former barns and outbuildings as a pony trekking centre.

Stables and an accommodation block for holidaymakers were included in the proposals approved last year.

But the owners have also had a bid for a camp site and washroom rejected.

The Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority was worried tents would not blend well with the landscape, while an access track on and off the site breached its policies.

However, new blueprints will be tabled when planners meet at the Ingleborough Community Centre, in Ingleton, today.

They include an extension to the farmhouse to serve as a washroom, and the access track constructed from green "gridding", which would limit its visible impact.

Feedback from many of the people and organisations consulted had not been received when planning officers penned a report on the fresh application.

Their judgement on the proposals had been reserved until the meeting today