{"id":78021,"date":"2025-08-19T15:11:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T15:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/78021\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T15:11:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T15:11:07","slug":"the-open-royal-birkdale-golf-course-expansion-plans-approved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/78021\/","title":{"rendered":"The Open: Royal Birkdale Golf course expansion plans approved"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sefton Council&#8217;s planning team recommended the proposals should be approved, stating The Open was &#8220;a very significant benefit to the borough&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The last time it was held here in 2017, it attracted over 230,000 visitors,&#8221; the report said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It said the development would &#8220;help to improve the quality of the golf course and ensure that it remains in the position to attract world class events such as The Open&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The planning team said the space taken &#8220;would be less than one hectare while the overall space within the common is in excess of 20 hectares&#8221; and the proposal &#8220;will include realignment of the public right of way, ensuring continued access to the common&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The elected members at the subcommittee meeting at Bootle Town Hall on Monday approved the application.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sefton Council&#8217;s planning team recommended the proposals should be approved, stating The Open was &#8220;a very significant benefit&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60643,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-78021","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\/78021","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=78021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}