A unique cliff top cafe set up in shipping containers has become such a hit it needs a new off-site kitchen to meet demand.
Drift Cafe, which sits near Tantallon Castle, North Berwick, in East Lothian, was launched by husband and wife team Stuart and Jo McNicol of Castleton Farm, on the outskirts of the town in 2018.
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And it has gone from strength to strength, despite the pandemic, welcoming thousands of visitors each year.
Now the farm has been granted planning permission for 10 'modular buildings' which will be used as a bakery for the cafe as well as operating an electric bike rental firm on the site and creating farm offices.
Like Drift Cafe, the new e-bike company Ez Riders has been described by planners as a farm diversification project which will generate new tourism and visitors to the area.
Granting approval for the additional buildings in the farm yard, planning officers said the application had received one objection from the Architectural Heritage Society of Scotland.
The society said the Tantallon Coast Statement of Importance described it as "the wildest, most remote and least developed area of mainland coast within East Lothian" and argued the new units were incompatible with it.
However planning officers said the units were being situated on an existing hard surfaced yard area of the farm and supported a rural business.
They said: "The modular buildings in use as a bakery are used as an additional food preparation facility and kitchen for the existing, established Drift Cafe business which is located some 600 metres to the west of the site.
"It is a popular tourism and leisure business and due to its success increased food preparation facilities are required."
And they said the new units could lead to additional jobs being created.
They added an accompanying statement from the applicant had said that the additional bakery space at the far would "secure existing employment and require 3-4 new full time equivalent positions based at the farm.
Additionally planning officers ruled the Ez Riders start up business fitted in to the tourism and leisure uses appropriate to the countryside and supported the Castleton Farm business.
They said: "The use of the container units for Ez Riders fits a farm diversification project whilst generating new tourism/visitor-related business employment/investment in the area."
