{"id":608233,"date":"2026-05-28T09:46:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T09:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/608233\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T09:46:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T09:46:08","slug":"tree-faces-axe-over-damage-to-brighouse-golf-course-green","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/608233\/","title":{"rendered":"Tree faces axe over damage to Brighouse golf course green"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In the application to Calderdale Council, the club said it had made a similar request in 2024 but permission was not given, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/lnp\/ldrs\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Local Democracy Reporting Service<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This was despite a report from consultants into course conditions and agronomic management which said some trees were causing &#8220;extreme shade&#8221; to some of the golf course&#8217;s greens, which were having a detrimental effect on growth and condition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A report submitted with the application said limited sunlight, poor airflow and increasingly wet weather were preventing the surface from drying and recovering properly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It concluded that reducing shade and tree overhang was necessary to improve airflow and help greens dry, alongside changes to maintenance practices.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The club said if permission was given to fell the tree, it would plant a replacement species which would grow to a smaller height, for example a rowan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the application to Calderdale Council, the club said it had made a similar request in 2024 but&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":608234,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-608233","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\/608233","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=608233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608233\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/608234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=608233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=608233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=608233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}