ONE of rural Dorset’s best-known pubs is planning to use some of its grounds for a temporary summer campsite.

The Worlds End Inn, Dorchester Road, Almer has notified Dorset Council that it intends to use the area for camping between July 27 and September 6, taking advantage of the 60-day rule for sites without the need for full planning consent.

The pub says it has had a new unit specifically built for the campsite, containing two toilets, two showers and two sinks with the waste disposed of by a direct link into an onsite sewage treatment plant.

Its notification to the council says that a part of the area proposed for camping is within a flood risk zone, but is only deemed to have a one in a hundred year risk of river flooding, adding that there has never been an incident of flooding in the area during the summer.

It says should the worst happen there is a duty manager available 24-hours each day and camping guests could be evacuated to the pub restaurant, 200 yards away from the camping ground.

Comments on the notification can be made to Dorset Council by July 23.