{"id":361140,"date":"2025-12-22T06:15:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T06:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/361140\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T06:15:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T06:15:08","slug":"burghley-park-golf-club-to-build-padel-courts-on-its-car-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/361140\/","title":{"rendered":"Burghley Park Golf club to build padel courts on its car park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Plans have been approved for two padel courts to be built at a golf club dating back to the late Victorian period.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Padel X has received planning permission to build the courts in a car park at Burghley Park Golf Club, near Stamford, Lincolnshire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Its first planning application in February was withdrawn after Peterborough City Council planners said <a target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cn8zdyg0x57o\" class=\"sc-f9178328-0 iCaRzc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">removing seven trees to build the courts was &#8220;unacceptable<\/a>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The company&#8217;s fresh application avoided the loss of the established trees and landscape. The proposal was approved on 19 December the <a target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/lnp\/ldrs\" class=\"sc-f9178328-0 iCaRzc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Local Democracy Reporting Service<\/a> said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">In a planning statement, Plan Padel on behalf of Padel X, said the sport was rapidly growing in popularity, and was an &#8220;ideal addition&#8221; to  the golf club&#8217;s amenities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\"><a target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/articles\/crrlnlj8lrxo\" class=\"sc-f9178328-0 iCaRzc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Padel is a racquet sport that uses enclosed courts<\/a> about a third smaller than lawn tennis and, like squash, players can bounce the ball off the walls. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The approved development includes a landscape scheme, with woodland planting to the west, between the courts and the adjacent London Road.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The golf club, which dates back to 1890, is set within Burghley Estate&#8217;s parkland on the grounds of Burghley House.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Plans have been approved for two padel courts to be built at a golf club dating back to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":361141,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":["post-361140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=361140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361140\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/361141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}