Golf club to use waste to develop new course
By Seamus Rotherick
Chipping Norton Golf Club in Oxfordshire has applied for planning permission to build a new golf course and driving range, which will be shaped using inert landfill.
The development follows the recent revelation that Westbury Golf Club in Wiltshire is to double the size of its course using what Chipping Norton describes as ‘imported inert soils surplus to requirements from construction sites in the region’.
As the waste material is so expensive to dispose of and there is pressure to reduce waste going to landfill, organisations will pay for golf clubs to use it. In the case of Westbury, this will fund the entire project.
At Chipping Norton, the club hopes to build a three-hole par three course, a 14-bay driving range, a practice green, a car parking facility and a new pro shop on a section of disused land that the club owns. The club will also build relationships with local schools to encourage juniors to play on the new course.
“In order to shape the new golf course, engineering soils will need to be brought to the course by lorries,” explained a spokesman for Keltbray Golf Environmental, which will construct the facility. It previously designed and built an 18-hole golf course at The Rose Bowl, Hampshire.
“The vehicle movements will average 45 per day and the materials are fully compliant with the Environment Agency. Dust suppression measures will be used and the works will not disrupt the usual running of the 18-hole course while on-site road sweepers will ensure minimal disruption to local routes.”
West Oxfordshire District Council will make a decision on the planning application shortly.
By Seamus Rotherick
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Careful what you do with the waste. It seems if you do exactly what you’re told, you’ll be banged up for it as the Wyatt bros. did at Waterstock by OCC.
https://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Justice-for-the-Wyatt-Brothers/577318672284630
Update: The planning permission has been secured.
The contract is worth in excess of £600,000 and will involve the reprofile of selective holes within the existing Chipping Norton Golf Club course, and to develop a new 14 bay driving range, a three-hole golf academy with an associated pro shop and office space in partnership with the club.
Later this month Keltbray will start work to provide 95,000 tonnes of engineered soil material over a 12-month period as part of this project.
Chairman of Chipping Norton Golf Club, David Newton, is said: “The route to obtaining planning has been arduous but the club looks forward to providing a fantastic facility for our members and the general public.”
Managing director of Keltbray Golf Environmental, David Jenner, said: “Chipping Norton Golf Club was founded in 1890. We’re delighted planning has now been granted, so that we can help make this course even better. The new facilities will help encourage youth development and the project has been specifically designed so not to disrupt golfers from playing on the existing 18 hole course.”
The new practice facility is estimated to be completed by next summer.
It is a pity that Oxfordshire District Council did not look so favourably upon this method at Waterstock Golf Club. Instead they had the owners jailed.
Building golf courses from inert landfill (subsoil) makes a lot of sense. We have designed several projects that not only deliver a free new green or a new practice area, short game academy or just make holes better, sometimes even a full 18 hole course but often they can yield substantial incomes perhaps up to £1,000,000. A golf club can end up with a better course and some money, if any club ever wants me or Ben Stephens to have a quick look for them we will for do that for nothing. just email me AdrianStiff@aol.com SASgolf design
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