A woman who runs an award-winning dog park has been given permission to open a second facility. 

Lucinda Scott, manager of Martham Paw Ground, will now open another dog exercise and training area in a field on Grange Farm off Common Road in Martham.

Planners said the application would provide the potential to alleviate some of the recreational pressures on the Winterton dunes by directing local resident dog walkers to this site.

Martham Paw Ground, a dog park just off the A149 which opened in spring last year, won Norfolk Dog Field of the Year in March.

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The new park will cater for dog training groups and customers with reactive dogs.

It will include a 2m high fence around the perimeter, as well as an access track and parking area with four spaces.

No external lighting is proposed as part of the application, with the operating hours proposed to be 5am to 9.30pm.

The site will be used by a maximum of four dogs at any one time with an appointment only system.

While Ms Scott will manage the new site and the existing nearby dog exercise site, and both will share the same website and booking system, the two sites will not share a car park or be linked in anyway.

Great Yarmouth Borough Council (GYBC) received more than 60 responses supporting the application.

People who already use Martham Paw Ground welcomed the prospect of another dog field in the area as the existing park is often fully booked.

A woman from Reedham said it was "brilliant news".

"An extra field would be much appreciated by us and our lovely dogs who don't get to run off lead anywhere else," she added.

The proposed site is not visible from the existing secure dog field and is screened to the south and east by mature hedgerows.