{"id":293043,"date":"2025-12-01T13:16:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T13:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/293043\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T13:16:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T13:16:08","slug":"plans-to-build-houses-at-golf-course-on-cotswolds-beauty-spot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/293043\/","title":{"rendered":"Plans to build houses at golf course on Cotswolds beauty spot"},"content":{"rendered":"

Development bid at The Cotswolds Lakes<\/p>\n

Peter Davison, Local Democracy Reporter<\/p>\n

06:00, 01 Dec 2025<\/p>\n

The development site(Image: Local Democracy Reporting Service)<\/p>\n

Plans to build a dozen houses at a golf course will be discussed by planners next week.<\/p>\n

Cotswold Ecohomes wants to build 12 new homes at Oaksey Park Golf & Leisure, a nine-hole golf course in The Cotswolds Lakes<\/a> (formerly Cotswolds Water Park) near the Gloucestershire border.<\/p>\n

Planning permission for 12 holiday lodges was granted in 2005 \u2013 the fourth phase in the creation of a number of such lodges at the site. But they were never built.<\/p>\n

Earlier this year, the developer approached Wiltshire Council with plans to build houses for the over-55s.<\/p>\n

But following an objection by Oaksey Parish Council, who said that what the village needed was families, not retirees, the application was revised.<\/p>\n

New plans, to be discussed by members of the Northern Area Planning Committee next Wednesday (December 3), would see 12 two-storey three-bed houses built in Cotswold stone.<\/p>\n

As the number of proposed houses totals more than five, an allocation of affordable houses would have been expected. However, all will be sold at market value, with the developer making a contribution to Wiltshire Council of nearly \u00a3350,000 to provide affordable housing elsewhere.<\/p>\n

The council’s own planning department is recommending to councillors that they grant planning permission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Development bid at The Cotswolds Lakes Peter Davison, Local Democracy Reporter 06:00, 01 Dec 2025 The development site(Image:…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":293044,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[2918,18089,5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-293043","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-cotswolds","9":"tag-gloucestershire","10":"tag-golf","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293043","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=293043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293043\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/293044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}