{"id":821714,"date":"2026-11-02T12:52:09","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T12:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/821714\/"},"modified":"2026-11-02T12:52:09","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T12:52:09","slug":"game-set-and-match-for-peebles-lawn-tennis-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/821714\/","title":{"rendered":"Game, set and match for Peebles Lawn Tennis Club"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Peebles Lawn Tennis Club lease the courts and clubhouse at the town\u2019s Victoria Park from Peebles Common Good Fund.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The club\u2019s pavilion is an unlisted, single storey timber building with a rosemary tile roof.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bordertelegraph.com\/topics\/scottish-borders-council\/?ref=au\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Scottish Borders Council<\/a> planners have now approved an application for the installation of 12 solar panels on the pavilion roof, split equally between the two roof planes.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Solar panels primarily provide clean, renewable electricity from sunlight, which lowers energy bills and reduces a property\u2019s carbon footprint by cutting greenhouse gas emissions.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  In his report approving the application, SBC planning officer Ranald Dods states: \u201cThe applicant undertook an ecological appraisal, given the type of roofing and the location close to parkland and waterways.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cThat was assessed by the ecologist and, as no bats were found, the ecologist found the proposal to be acceptable. I have no reason to question that assessment.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Peebles Lawn Tennis Club lease the courts and clubhouse at the town\u2019s Victoria Park from Peebles Common Good&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":821715,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-821714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821714","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=821714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821714\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/821715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=821714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=821714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=821714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}