applied for permission for the building at the end of last year<\/a> and documents it\u00a0submitted\u00a0to Torfaen council\u2019s planning department\u00a0stated\u00a0the building will house a teaching space for up to eight people and make use of \u201celectronic AI\u00a0simulators with 3D projectors for an interactive experience\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\n<\/p>\n\n The Cwmbran club, whose home is a\u00a0nine-hole mountain course, was\u00a0established\u00a0in\u00a01875\u00a0when\u00a0it was one of the few clubs in Britain outside of Scotland,\u00a0and it describes\u00a0itself\u00a0as \u201carguably the oldest golf club in Wales\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
\n The timber-clad 3.6 metre high, five metres wide and 6m long building with grey metal roof\u00a0and\u00a0white\u00a0UPVC\u00a0window and door will be sited on an existing area of hardstanding next to existing sheds and the clubhouse.\u00a0\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
\n Torfaen planning officer Simon Pritchard said, in a report which approved the application, though the club is\u00a0outside of the urban boundary\u00a0national and local policies allow development of \u201cappropriate scale\u201d at existing leisure sites and\u00a0\u201cthe principle of strengthening and diversifying existing rural\/leisure businesses is\u00a0generally supported\u201d.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
\n It was also considered the \u201crelatively small-scale building\u201d would be screened by existing planting and buildings\u00a0and distance from neighbouring properties meant there would be no significant impact\u00a0on amenity while there is no external lighting planned and proposed native tree planting is considered acceptable.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Gwent club will be able to make use of computer aids, 3D\u00a0projectors\u00a0and AI to help members improve…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":452321,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-452320","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\/452320","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=452320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452320\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/452321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}