{"id":66440,"date":"2025-08-14T13:10:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T13:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/66440\/"},"modified":"2025-08-14T13:10:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T13:10:07","slug":"torquay-homes-affected-by-very-rare-but-concerning-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/66440\/","title":{"rendered":"Torquay homes affected by &#8216;very rare but concerning problem&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A &#8216;modest yet essential&#8217; net could be put up<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1_Net.jpg\" alt=\"The proposed new net at Torquay Golf Club\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>The proposed new net at Torquay Golf Club(Image: Torquay Golf Club\/Torbay Council)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">People living in up-market Torquay apartments could be in line for protection from wayward golf shots.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The four apartments at Knebworth Court look out over the picturesque fairways of <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.devonlive.com\/all-about\/torquay\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Torquay<\/a> Golf Club, but the view comes with the \u2018very rare but concerning\u2019 problem of off-target golf balls.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Now the golf club has asked <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.devonlive.com\/all-about\/torbay-council\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Torbay Council<\/a> for permission to put up a \u2018modest yet essential\u2019 net to catch the occasional slices and hooks from its driving range and practice area that end up going over the wall.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The apartments in Knebworth Court in Petitor Road, described by one estate agent as \u2018just a saunter\u2019 from St Marychurch, are valued at around \u00a3300,000.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The club wants to put up a 17m long fence, which would be 4.5m high. It says: \u201cThe purpose of the net is to prevent the very rare but concerning occurrence of stray golf balls entering the residential grounds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">\u201cDespite the club\u2019s strict enforcement of driving range usage protocols, including maximum distance controls, occasional mishits have resulted in golf balls reaching Knebworth Court.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The application says that the incidents have been raised by the Knebworth Court Residents\u2019 Association, and the club wants to stop it happening again.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The visual impact of the new fence, it says, will be \u2018minimal\u2019, and residents are in favour of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A &#8216;modest yet essential&#8217; net could be put upThe proposed new net at Torquay Golf Club(Image: Torquay Golf&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":66441,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,26849,26850,7557,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-66440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports","tag-torbay","tag-torbay-council","tag-torquay","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66440","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=66440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66440\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}