{"id":327845,"date":"2025-12-21T08:30:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T08:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/327845\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T08:30:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T08:30:08","slug":"brandon-wood-golf-course-plans-for-large-nature-reserve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/327845\/","title":{"rendered":"Brandon Wood Golf Course: Plans for large nature reserve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Councillor Jim O&#8217;Boyle said: &#8220;This is a\u202funique opportunity to\u202fcreate something\u202fvery special, not just for the city and the region, but for the country&#8217;s wildlife.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We know the UK is one of the most nature depleted nations in the world, with one in six species at risk of extinction,\u202fand\u202feveryone\u202fhas to\u202ftake action.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We\u202fmade a\u202fcommitment in\u202fthe council&#8217;s\u202fClimate Change Strategy to\u202fdo all we can to\u202fsupport nature recovery\u202f-\u202fand this site presents a significant opportunity to do that\u202fat\u202fa\u202fscale\u202frarely seen.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The council would need to\u202fobtain\u202fplanning permission\u202ffor the change of use from Rugby Borough Council and would then work with Warwickshire County Council and other partners to develop the site.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">That includes\u202fWarwickshire Wildlife Trust, which manages\u202fland\u202faround the golf course and has its headquarters at\u202fthe\u202fneighbouring\u202fBrandon Marsh Nature Reserve.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mr O&#8217;Byle said there was also the possibility of building an outdoor education centre on the site of the old clubhouse. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Councillor Jim O&#8217;Boyle said: &#8220;This is a\u202funique opportunity to\u202fcreate something\u202fvery special, not just for the city and the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":327846,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-327845","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\/327845","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=327845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327845\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/327846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}