The Brightlingsea Leisure Village on Promenade Way has been bought by a Nottingham-based park home and holiday lodge business.

Countrywide Park Homes describes itself as a family-run business that has been in the residential and holiday industry for more than 50 years and which specialises in managing, developing and selling homes. According to the company's website, it runs seven holiday parks and 10 residential parks, the nearest of which is in Shotley, Suffolk.