{"id":337141,"date":"2025-12-26T20:46:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T20:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/337141\/"},"modified":"2025-12-26T20:46:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T20:46:11","slug":"nature-england-has-no-objection-to-christchurch-park-golf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/337141\/","title":{"rendered":"Nature England has no objection to Christchurch Park golf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  In August, plans were submitted to the council for an 18-hole adventure golf course to be built in Christchurch Park on the old lawn bowls green.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ipswichstar.co.uk\/news\/25425961.plans-18-hole-adventure-golf-course-christchurch-park\/?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">plans are yet to be decided upon<\/a>, due to the ongoing consultation with organisations.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Natural England has said that they have no objection to the plans, with them stating: &#8220;Natural England considers that the proposed development will not have significant adverse impacts on statutory protected nature conservation sites or landscapes.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Soon after plans were submitted, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ipswichstar.co.uk\/news\/25509800.concerns-golf-course-ipswichs-christchurch-park\/?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">concerns were raised over the noise<\/a>, the financial viability and the green space it would be situated on.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Friends of Christchurch Park originally objected but after meeting with developers, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ipswichstar.co.uk\/news\/25621551.friends-christchurch-park-ipswich-no-longer-object-golf\/?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">found that they no longer had issues with the plans<\/a>. Historic England said the site being reused for another club-based sport would be &#8220;broadly appropriate&#8221;.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Ipswich Borough Council will discuss the plans in due course.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In August, plans were submitted to the council for an 18-hole adventure golf course to be built in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":102390,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-337141","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\/337141","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=337141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}