A BREAN leisure park has launched new sensory guides to help people who are visiting the venue that have sensory needs.

The new guides detail what visitors can expect to see, hear, smell, taste and touch from when they arrive at Brean Play and Brean Splash through to using the facilities, and aim to help children and adults that may have a sensory processing disorder.

Sensory processing disorder is a condition in which the brain has trouble receiving and responding to information that comes in through the senses.

People with the disorder are over sensitive to things in their environment and Sarah House, director of the attractions at the leisure park said she hopes the new guides will help visitors.

She said: “Both Brean Play and Brean Splash are quite large attractions with a lot going on, and they can get very busy.

"We appreciate that this may be very unsettling to any visitor that has sensory needs or social anxieties and we hope that by producing these guides it will assist people coming to visit us, whether from our local community or people that may be staying in the area on holiday. ”

The guides support the park's new SEND sessions at Brean Play for children and young adults that special educational needs.

The SEND sessions feature a quiet room and a mini disco and take place at Brean Play once a month.

Brean Splash also runs a session for disabled people on a Wednesday's between 10-11am.

A spokesman for Brean Leisure Park said: "Brean Play and Brean Splash are part of family owned business Holiday Resort Unity, which is committed to access and inclusivity across all operations, with staff members representing all departments trained as Dementia Friends and receiving autism awareness training.

"All facilities have level access and disabled toilet and changing facilities."

For more information or to get a copy of the sensory guide visit at www.breanplay.com and www.breansplash.com.