TWO holiday parks in Hampshire are to receive investment of more than £1million each to update facilities.

The work at Hoburne Bashley and Hoburne Naish, near New Milton, is part of a £6million improvement programme to all of Hoburne’s seven holiday parks across the south-west.

A new-look entertainment and leisure complex will be created at both parks by converting existing clubhouses.

Both will have new, family-friendly dining venues, including ‘Café H’ and a restaurant offering full table service.

In addition Bashley will have 39 new timber lodges, the first in this park, in addition to 700-plus caravan pitches.

Work is due to be completed by March – in time for the start of 2016 holiday season.

More than 100,000 holidaymakers stayed with Hoburne in 2015 and more than 2,000 private owners have a holiday home at a Hoburne park.

Managing director Rod Tucker said: “The huge investment that we are currently making is testament to our commitment to setting new standards across the industry and to our goal of exceeding our customer’s expectations.

“We have engaged professional interior designers to create stylish interior schemes incorporating relaxing colours and natural materials, as well as comfortable seating options and attractive, design-led communal spaces which we are confident that our customers will love.”

John Burry, great-grandfather of Hoburne’s present chairman Rosie Kennar, purchased Hoburne Farm, which was Lot II in the sale of what was then known as ‘the Hubborn Estate’, in 1912.

Eight years later, Mr Burry purchased Naish Farm, with its outstanding views over the Solent towards the Isle of Wight, and thereafter began the arrival of redundant railway carriages and shepherds’ huts, which were then converted by their owners into holiday homes.

The park now has more than 1,000 holiday homes.

The rest of the group was created in the post-Second World War years, starting with Bashley in 1964.