An appeal has brought an end to a plan to open a private campground in a remote Nova Scotia coastal community.

On Friday, the Nova Scotia Utility and Review Board allowed an appeal by neighbouring farmer Lindsay Steele, reversing the Municipality of Kings County's May 2024 decision to OK the campground development in Scots Bay.

"I'm actually in shock and disbelief," Steele, whose commercial farm is adjacent to the proposed campground site, said in an interview Saturday.

"It's been three years of s…