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Littlestone Mar 10, 2007 11:03:49

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Are the same restrictions applied to golf courses that they apply to Motorways?

Getting planning permission for a golf course is often a lot easier than getting planning permission for 'structural' development. However once a site has been granted permission for a golf course it is no longer so difficult (after a respectable period of course) to apply for planning permission to do something more 'structural' (like a housing estate or a retail park!).

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goffik Mar 10, 2007 11:24:21

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slumpystones wrote:

What of the potential archaeology uprooted and piled up to make nice embankments?

There's a few cases of holy wells being located on golf courses - much, I'm sure, to the consternation of the golfers themselves!

Bloody hippies wandering along public footpaths to see public ancient monuments on their public bloody golf courses... ;o)

Mind you - the thought of a golf ball whacking you on the ear on a freezing cold spring morning doesn't half keep you alert!

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tiompan Mar 10, 2007 13:33:02

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slumpystones wrote:

This has bugged me for a while. Do Golf Courses or massive garden projects require more than a cursory planning permission? What of the potential archaeology uprooted and piled up to make nice embankments?

Are the same restrictions applied to golf courses that they apply to Motorways?

Off the top of me head , Gourouck GC has rock art , Camperdown in Dundee has a souterrain and standing stone , Crieff a stone circle , Alyth a standing stone , Pitlochry had a possible stone circle .They occupy a lot of land for the pleasure of a few , use lots of pesticides ,although there are rare organic examples . Green , hippy rant over

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slumpystones Mar 15, 2007 19:16:46

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A prime example...

More recently the construction of a golf course had caused large parts of the site to be badly disturbed by irrigation pipes, bunkers and platforms for teeing-off greens, the platforms being built up with a blue clay that had deeply stained the deposits underlying them.

http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue/projArch/ctrl/cgc98/index.cfm

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sttomas Mar 16, 2007 10:59:03

Replying to slumpystones

slumpystones wrote:

This has bugged me for a while. Do Golf Courses or massive garden projects require more than a cursory planning permission? What of the potential archaeology uprooted and piled up to make nice embankments?

Are the same restrictions applied to golf courses that they apply to Motorways?

Not sure about planning permission but in Newport it's not particularly difficult, especially when it's the Celtic Manor and in particular that they've got the 2010 Ryder Cup. The courses they have now have taken over the landscape dramatically and they want to build more to stretch down towards Caerleon. I'm hoping that they won't be allowed as part of the hill they want to build a new course on is believed to be the resting place of bronze/iron age persons.

I hate golf!

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moss Mar 16, 2007 11:41:45

Replying to slumpystones

Most of the countryside round our part of the world (somerset) has a landscape characterization made by the planners/archaeologists. There are a couple of golf courses round Bath that have round barrows as well. The one nearest to me has roman buildings under the Fairway?? plus it abuts an iron age hillfort, so presumably it is protected. Read a desktop survey by archaeologists when the golfcourse wanted to plant trees, so in this instance there is a cordinated policy to protect the landscape and its history, its the farmers that are more destructive.