{"id":423265,"date":"2026-02-13T08:18:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T08:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/423265\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T08:18:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T08:18:07","slug":"developers-appeal-after-blaby-golf-centre-homes-rejected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/423265\/","title":{"rendered":"Developers appeal after Blaby Golf Centre homes rejected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ahead of the decision, council officers recommended the scheme be refused and the application garnered more than 1,700 objections from the public.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In their report, officers said while the development would provide much-needed housing, the loss of 16 hectares of green wedge land was &#8220;considered to be inherently harmful.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They said proposals to relocate other well-used businesses at the centre, including a dance school, gym, taxi rank, boutique and beauty salon, were inadequate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mike Shirley, council portfolio holder for planning and strategic growth, said: &#8220;We were confident that refusing this application was the right thing to do in planning terms when it came before us last year. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The harms it posed, both to established and well-used local businesses and the local community, significantly outweighed the benefits of new housing. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We do not believe the situation has changed and we hope the government planning inspector will feel the same way.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The inspector will now carry out an independent review of the council&#8217;s decision to ensure it was made fairly and in accordance with planning law and policy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hallam Land Management has been contacted for comment. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ahead of the decision, council officers recommended the scheme be refused and the application garnered more than 1,700&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40732,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-423265","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\/423265","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=423265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}