{"id":456772,"date":"2026-03-04T08:57:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T08:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/456772\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T08:57:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T08:57:07","slug":"herefordshire-golf-clubhouse-granted-approval-to-be-turned-into-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/456772\/","title":{"rendered":"Herefordshire golf clubhouse granted approval to be turned into home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Justifying his latest plans, Walton said the course &#8220;was losing a significant amount of money each year&#8221; and could not compete with other clubs in the area with &#8220;better facilities&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The new plans received no objections on highways, ecology or water supply grounds, or from parish councillors or the public.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Planning officer Ollie Jones concluded there was &#8220;no realistic prospect of its viable re\u2011establishment&#8221; as a golf club \u2013 which the council did not view as a loss to the county in policy terms.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Securing the long\u2011term use of a redundant building and avoiding its unnecessary demolition meant the proposed change was &#8220;justified and acceptable in principle&#8221;, he concluded.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This news was gathered by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/lnp\/ldrs\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Local Democracy Reporting Service<\/a> which covers councils and other public service organisations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Justifying his latest plans, Walton said the course &#8220;was losing a significant amount of money each year&#8221; and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":456773,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-456772","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\/456772","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=456772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456772\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/456773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}