{"id":282616,"date":"2025-11-25T14:32:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T14:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/282616\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T14:32:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T14:32:07","slug":"golf-still-an-option-at-solent-meads-course-council-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/282616\/","title":{"rendered":"Golf &#8216;still an option&#8217; at Solent Meads course, council says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">BCP Conservative councillor, Toby Slade, said: &#8220;It is the only community golf course in the area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Over 8,000 people have voiced their concern \u2026 I think it&#8217;s a good sign and the people will be heard now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He added that the council&#8217;s &#8220;only option is to let nature take its course and turn it into a lovely area\u2026 but there&#8217;s a lovely area already there&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The golf club could and want to invest in it,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Why can&#8217;t they be left to get on with it?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Golf For All, which has run the site via a lease since 2003, said 20,000 golfers used the site every year and it was a &#8220;viable business&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It said it believed Solent Meads should stay open as a golf course, whether it runs it or a new operator takes over.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BCP Conservative councillor, Toby Slade, said: &#8220;It is the only community golf course in the area. &#8220;Over 8,000&hellip;\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-282616","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\/282616","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=282616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282616\/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=282616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}