{"id":263925,"date":"2025-11-15T08:01:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T08:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/263925\/"},"modified":"2025-11-15T08:01:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T08:01:09","slug":"petition-triggers-debate-on-future-of-solent-meads-golf-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/263925\/","title":{"rendered":"Petition triggers debate on future of Solent Meads golf course"},"content":{"rendered":"

Liberal Democrat Richard Herrett, BCP’s portfolio holder for destination, leisure and commercial operations, said: “There are a number of popular golf courses within the conurbation with good capacity, and the team are proactively working on alternative options for members of the golf club.”<\/p>\n

He said the council knew “how much open spaces matter to communities” and it would be “engaging with residents directly to create a new vision for what can be achieved at Solent Meads and understand how they want to see it used going forwards”.<\/p>\n

“This will allow us to ensure more people have access to the stunning natural surroundings and all the benefits of an open, inclusive green space,” he said. <\/p>\n

“Open spaces play a vital role in the health and wellbeing to our residents, and we need to balance historic use with making them accessible to communities.”<\/p>\n

Petitions with 2,000 or more signatures are referred for debate at a meeting of full council where members will be asked to consider it and to determine the next steps.<\/p>\n

The golf course is one of three areas along with Erlin Farm and nature reserve Millhams Mead<\/a> earmarked for improvements aimed at boosting nature and community use.<\/p>\n

The council said there were no plans for housing or any other form of mass development at the sites.<\/p>\n

Councillors are set to discuss the proposals at the next cabinet meeting on 26 November, and any future plans will follow normal planning and approval processes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Liberal Democrat Richard Herrett, BCP’s portfolio holder for destination, leisure and commercial operations, said: “There are a number…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":263926,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-263925","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263925","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=263925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263925\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}