\n Sapey Golf Club, near Bromyard, was previously owned by gypsy millionaire Alfie Best’s company, Wyldecrest Parks, but the 44-hectare property was sold by agents, Savills, in 2025.\n<\/p>\n
\n Brett Walton has applied for permission to turn the clubhouse into a self-build residential dwelling, with alterations to the fenestration and landscaping.\n<\/p>\n
\n The application said that the golf course had been losing a “significant amount of money” each year, and had become unviable.\n<\/p>\n
\n The property was on the market for two years, and for a number of months with no other purchasers coming forward who were willing to run it as a golf club.\n<\/p>\n
\n Though Mr Walton’s previous application to turn the site into a tourism and leisure complex with four “high-quality chalets” was refused due to a lack of detail on the scale and operation of the site.\n<\/p>\n
\n One objection had been made over the loss of the golf club.\n<\/p>\n
\n The current application said that better golfing facilities were available elsewhere, adding that there is “strong historic evidence” that the site is not viable as a golf club.\n<\/p>\n
\n They believe the building is suitable for reuse without need for substantial development or alteration, with the building in a structurally sound condition.\n<\/p>\n
\n If plans are given the green-light, changes are set to include a balcony being added off the dining room, the addition of a ground-floor window, and the removal of an external staircase.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sapey Golf Club, near Bromyard, was previously owned by gypsy millionaire Alfie Best’s company, Wyldecrest Parks, but the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38122,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-386226","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\/386226","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=386226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386226\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}