{"id":129807,"date":"2025-09-11T11:44:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T11:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/129807\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T11:44:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T11:44:07","slug":"craigie-hill-bitterly-disappointed-as-golf-plans-rejected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/129807\/","title":{"rendered":"Craigie Hill &#8216;bitterly disappointed&#8217; as golf plans rejected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Proposals from Craigie Hill <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heraldscotland.com\/sport\/golf\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Golf<\/a> Club to build 175 homes on half of its course in conjunction with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heraldscotland.com\/local-news\/dundee-news\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Dundee<\/a> engineering group Kilmac <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heraldscotland.com\/news\/25450993.historic-golf-course-submits-plans-turn-half-175-houses\/?ref=ial\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">failed to receive support earlier this month from the local council&#8217;s planning committee<\/a>. Following a meeting of\u00a0the entire council on Wednesday, the plans were rejected by a vote of 26 to nine.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Read more:\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Mr Mitchell told councillors that the club is\u00a0haemorrhaging up to \u00a330,000 each\u00a0year and has\u00a0been \u201cfighting\u201d against a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heraldscotland.com\/news\/25209307.results-herald-scottish-golf-survey\/#:~:text=The%20received%20wisdom%20is%20golf,during%20the%2020%20years%20prior.\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">decline<\/a> for the past two decades. He added that the development would be\u00a0a \u201cnet gain for Perth, continued employment for staff\u201d and have\u00a0\u201cminimal\u201d impact on the area&#8217;s green belt.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Speaking on Wednesday evening after the final vote, Mr Mitchell said:\u00a0\u201cWe would like to thank councillors for their time but naturally we are bitterly disappointed with the council\u2019s decision. Obviously we are even more concerned about what lies ahead for Craigie Hill. \u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cWhile the future of the golf club is assured for the next 15 months, we have warned all along that the club\u2019s long-term existence is in serious jeopardy.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The planning application received 212 letters of support and 107 objections. Mr Mitchell thanked the &#8220;many members of the public&#8221; and the club&#8217;s members for providing &#8220;enthusiastic support&#8221; for the project.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Read more:\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cRather than hugely enhancing the sporting and recreational amenities in Perth, the city could be facing yet another body blow following the council\u2019s decision to sound the death knell for Bell&#8217;s Sports Centre, with the future of the ice rink and leisure pool also uncertain.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;It was encouraging to hear that councillors were keen to meet and discuss a collaborative approach to securing the future of the club. We will take a few days to reflect calmly on the council decision, and comments made during the course of the meeting, before deciding on our next step.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Proposals from Craigie Hill Golf Club to build 175 homes on half of its course in conjunction with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":129808,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-129807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}