{"id":322945,"date":"2025-12-18T15:00:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T15:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/322945\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T15:00:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T15:00:07","slug":"misunderstanding-led-to-solent-meads-golf-course-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/322945\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Misunderstanding&#8217; led to Solent Meads golf course campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">BCP consultants previously identified the three sites as having potential to generate Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) units &#8211; credits which are sold to developers to offset the impact of developments.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">East Southbourne and Tuckton councillor Bernadette Nanovo said, after hearing about the scheme, &#8220;it soon became apparent that the golf was at risk&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Our opposing voices were soon backed up by the Hengistbury Head residents&#8217; association and 8,000-plus people who signed the petition,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Summing up, environment councillor Andy Hadley said: &#8220;The views were based on a misunderstanding &#8211; we hadn&#8217;t made a decision and golf was always part of the consideration.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We are looking to improve the biodiversity and, quite separately, we need to look at re-procuring the leisure opportunity on that site.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BCP consultants previously identified the three sites as having potential to generate Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) units &#8211;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":307143,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-322945","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\/322945","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=322945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322945\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/307143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}