{"id":676290,"date":"2026-07-06T07:51:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T07:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/676290\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T07:51:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T07:51:09","slug":"chief-minister-backs-public-ownership-of-golf-course-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/676290\/","title":{"rendered":"Chief Minister backs public ownership of golf course site"},"content":{"rendered":"

In an interview with BBC Jersey, external<\/a>, Chief Minister Lyndon Farnham was asked whether his government would consider buying the site.<\/p>\n

“I fancy that coming into public ownership somehow,” he said. <\/p>\n

Farnham said he was keen to speak to the National Trust about it.<\/p>\n

“There’s a great opportunity, if you look at the Simon Sand area along to Les Mielles, to create an area of outstanding natural beauty”.<\/p>\n

“That’s something we can certainly take a look at” he said. <\/p>\n

Farnham previously arranged for the purchase of Cafe Romany at Greve de Lecq<\/a> following similar calls to protect the surrounding area. <\/p>\n

With a guide price of \u00a39.95m, Farnham said there were a number of possibilities that could be explored in any such purchase.<\/p>\n

“There’s public money if we decide to use it, there are other options as well with the National Trust and I’ve had a number of people in our 21E community, the wealthier residents, who are very keen to help contribute to that”.<\/p>\n

The National Trust of Jersey declined to comment at this stage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In an interview with BBC Jersey, external, Chief Minister Lyndon Farnham was asked whether his government would consider…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":676291,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-676290","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\/676290","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=676290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676290\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/676291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=676290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=676290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=676290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}