{"id":563933,"date":"2026-05-03T11:51:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T11:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/563933\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T11:51:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T11:51:09","slug":"date-of-blaby-golf-centre-homes-appeal-confirmed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/563933\/","title":{"rendered":"Date of Blaby Golf Centre homes appeal confirmed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The original decision to refuse the plans was made last summer after more than 1,700 residents voiced objections to the scheme. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In a report produced for the planning committee, council officers said while the development would provide much-needed housing, the loss of 16 hectares (39 acres) 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\">Speaking after HLM announced its appeal, Mike Shirley, council portfolio holder for planning and strategic growth, said he was confident refusing the plans was the &#8220;right thing to do&#8221;. <\/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,&#8221; he said. <\/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 council said the hearing will start at 10:00 BST on 13 May in the Council Chamber at Blaby District Council&#8217;s offices in Desford Road, Narborough.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The original decision to refuse the plans was made last summer after more than 1,700 residents voiced objections&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-563933","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\/563933","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=563933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563933\/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=563933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=563933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=563933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}