{"id":431972,"date":"2026-05-17T12:13:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T12:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/431972\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T12:13:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T12:13:11","slug":"pegasus-golf-course-mayor-wants-talks-with-wolfbrook-over-housing-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/431972\/","title":{"rendered":"Pegasus Golf Course: Mayor wants talks with Wolfbrook over housing plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mplxTcLUMibHPxLgQP\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cWhichever pathway they pursue, any future plans need to involve hearing feedback and taking on board input from the community \u2013 such as the Pegasus Residents Group, community board and [the] council,\u201d Gordon said.<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"Waimakariri Mayor Dan Gordon.\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>Waimakariri Mayor Dan Gordon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mplxTcLUMibHPxLgQP\" style=\"display:none\">The council will help the community make sure their voice is heard, he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mplxTcLUMibHPxLgQP\" style=\"display:none\">He said he and his council will be \u201clistening to and standing up for residents\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mplxTcLUMibHPxLgQP\" style=\"display:none\">The Pegasus Golf Course opened in late 2009, before closing its doors in March this year. Since then, a group of residents known as the Pegasus guardians have been maintaining the course and contributing to the cost of a greenkeeper.<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"The Pegasus Golf Club, north of Christchurch, is set to remain permanently closed and make way for housing development.\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>The Pegasus Golf Club, north of Christchurch, is set to remain permanently closed and make way for housing development.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mplxTcLUMibHPxLgQP\" style=\"display:none\">Gordon says that will be discussed with Wolfbrook when he meets with the company.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mplxTcLUMibHPxLgQP\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cI will also discuss the interim maintenance of the existing golf course as well as proposals from the community to help look after it,\u201d Gordon said.<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"Guy Randall is chief executive of Wolfbrook Residential, which has its headquarters in Christchurch.\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>Guy Randall is chief executive of Wolfbrook Residential, which has its headquarters in Christchurch.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mplxTcLUMibHPxLgQP\" style=\"display:none\">Wolfbrook CEO Guy Randall said on Friday that his company would allow the golf course to remain open free of charge for a short period following settlement day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mplxTcLUMibHPxLgQP\" style=\"display:none\">Residents of Pegasus are understood to be considering their options.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cWhichever pathway they pursue, any future plans need to involve hearing feedback and taking on board input from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":431973,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[9442,18478,7557,18126,40370,3012,3339,13607,10934,9862,111,139,69,208505,1523,9769,86900,2170,312,213,301,165,68384,10037,14638,102,219625],"class_list":["post-431972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-better","tag-course","tag-district","tag-golf","tag-gordon","tag-hopes","tag-housing","tag-intentions","tag-mayor","tag-meet","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-obtain","tag-over","tag-owners","tag-pegasus","tag-plan","tag-says","tag-sports","tag-talks","tag-their","tag-understanding","tag-waimakariri","tag-wants","tag-with","tag-wolfbrook"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=431972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/431973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}