Mid Devon District Council said although it would like to help it must uphold planning policy.
Peter Hare-Scott, leader of Mid Devon District Council, said he was "not happy" about the decision.
About half the area of Silverton comes under the order, which was granted by Mid Devon District Council.
Mid Devon District Council, which said it had received 418 individual objections, has been recommended to refuse the application.
Mid Devon has 19 authorised privately owned pitches and no existing council-owned pitches, leaving them with a current shortfall of 8.
"It is a major tourist attraction and vital to Mid Devon's economy and to Devon as a whole, " Mr Hart said.
Mid Devon District Council awarded the Masons permission subject to 12 conditions.
Mid Devon Council said each planning application was considered on its merits.
Mid Devon District Council rejected plans in 2011 for a straw-bale constructed house on the land because the land was classified as agricultural.
Mid Devon District Council has no formal policy, but would not accept a cheque if a council tax campaigner did not want them to.
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Last year about 4, 500 sandbags were provided by Mid Devon Council.
Conservative-controlled Mid Devon District Council said last Friday that its new streets had not contained apostrophes for many years, but the policy was now being made official.
Mid Devon District Council is investing in flats for young people and, in east Devon, there are plans to buy homes for rent to local people through a housing association.
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Mid Devon District Council said there was "no need to identify new sites and that the better option would be for existing sites to be extended, subject to obtaining necessary Planning approvals".
Only mid-Devon falls outside a horseshoe of largely rural authorities extending south and east from the Fens.
"It is mid-Devon's premier tourist attraction and on any given weekend you'll have people here from all over Devon and during the summer they come from around the country, " he told BBC News.
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The Met Office has issued an amber snow warning for mid, north and east Devon, and a yellow warning for snow and ice for the whole county.
Nine other new support centres have been set up since 2010 in Northumbria, Leeds, Southend, Suffolk, mid-Wales, Hereford, Devon, Dorset and Trafford.
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Iain Tulley will join the trust from Devon Partnership NHS Trust in mid-November.
In the Glamorgan bowler's next over, first Test centurion Devon Smith lofted a drive to mid-off to depart for 17.
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