After a 16-year battle to get resource consent, through the Waitaki District Council and Environment Court, finally they can start to fully develop the camping ground.
Mr Jones yesterday was relieved the waiting was over and said he had always been determined to succeed.
There had always been a camping ground on the 1.22ha site and he had argued that through various hearings since the council said in September 1997 the camp was operating illegally.
The camping ground had also been challenged over the years by neighbours, despite other support within Kakanui.
In particular, immediate neighbours surrounded on two sides by the camping ground, Americans Robert and Linda Hildeman who spent some of the New Zealand summer at their Kakanui house, had opposed it from 2006.
In October 2011, the council issued an abatement notice to stop the camp operating. That was challenged in the Environment Court by Mr and Mrs Jones and Equipment and Support Ltd.
The court ordered the ground cease operating except for five camping sites at any one time (it had 30 tent and caravan sites) and apply to the council for resource consent.
The new consent was filed with 15 powered camping sites, three non-powered sites, two cabins and a manager's residence-office in stage one. Stage two would add another 10 non-powered sites.
Mr and Mrs Hildeman appealed that.
The court's decision last month cancelled the abatement notice, allowing the camping ground to be developed and fully utilised.
It rejected a change to the Waianakarua Rd entrance, an extended acoustic boundary fence and restrictions on traffic entering the site sought by the Hildemans.
However, it upheld construction of a permanent fence between the Hildemans' property and the camping ground to protect landscape and acoustic planting. They had offered to pay for the fence materials.
Mr Jones said as soon as the fence was constructed after the materials were provided - the court ruling it had to be within three months - he could then start on the manager's residence and further developing the site.
