Lakes By Yoo owners Coln Park LLP have slid into a row with Cotswold planners over an activities centre built at their exclusive Cotswold lakes luxury resort.

Cotswold District Council has ordered the park to apply for retrospective permission for an activities tower, climbing wall, trapeze and zipwire which was recently built and is now offered for visiting guests and residents at the resort near Lechlade.

Coln Park have now applied through Cheltenham-based Corylus Planning and Environmental for the "Erection of Zip wire and High Ropes activity centre" on land at the Lakes By Yoo, the zipwire's pathway launching from a 12-metre tall tower which sends funseekers over a stretch of waterway and is for use exclusively by those in residence at the park. 

The park's website offers one-hour sessions for £30, along with other related activities. The applicant states that there are five part-time jobs relating to the facility: the resort's website inviting guests to "explore new heights".

The owners said: "The activities tower is home to a range of experiences that everyone will enjoy including a zipwire, climbing wall, high ropes, power fan and trapeze. One minute you will be flying through the air on the onsite zipwire the next you are challenging each other to who can make it up the climbing wall the quickest."

The Lakes By Yoo was originally founded as a luxury hotel, holiday stay and residential mix by world-famous designer Phillipe Starck in partnership with property entrepreneur John Hitchcox, who worked together as part of their Yoo group of luxury hotels – a scheme to build 100 £100m projects in 43 countries around the globe.

In a recent interview with Town and Country House, John Hitchcox explained his business vision for the project: "I had the idea to create an oasis where families of like-minded friends can get an injection of country: nature, rest and recuperation, relaxing spa-time, imagination, dreaming, creativity, exercise and learning - sailing, fishing, biking, bushcraft."

Acitivities, he added, would include "Read, write, swim, be active in kayaks or on zip-wires with your kids, have coffee, relax by beautiful lakes. All in complete safety, 90 minutes from London."

The Lakes by Yoo offers a premium escape in the heart of the English Cotswolds. Celebrities Jade Jagger, Kate Moss and Elle Macpherson have all designed homes at the luxury retreat and Condé Nast Traveller said readers who book into a lakeside cabin could expect "the ultimate English countryside weekend."

For visitors seeking to buy, properties are offered. A lakeside lodge with 1.3 acres of grounds, six bedrooms and deck-inset swimming pool is currently on sale through agents Knight Frank at £6.95m.

● In December 2010, Coln Park lost a planning appeal after the company built two tennis courts and a car park at the Lakes By Yoo without permission. Planners supported the application for retrospective approval, but on appeal community leaders in Lechlade won over the isse of the development being within  a designated quiaet zone where development had been ruled out. Some biodiversity-related reasons for the refusal, however, were judged to be flawed, with Coln Park being awarded around £10,000 towards costs.