Bramcote Old Golf Course
Residents on Wembley Gardens and Gateford Close in Bramcote are celebrating after the Borough Council delivered the death knell to attempts to build on the old golf course behind their properties. Although the golf course closed many years ago it is a protected open space and is very popular with walkers and local people.
Outline planning permission was granted on appeal in 2015, when the Conservatives ran the borough councl, to build a retirement complex on the site. Although they did not support the application the inspector ruled that he had to grant permission because the Tory administration had failed to make enough land available for building on elsewhere in the borough, a legal requirement.
Since then a number of applications for full planning permission have been submitted and each rejected because of the extreme impact that they would have on existing properties. These refusals have also been upheld when the applicants appealed.
The borough councils legal department have now ruled that the outline planning permission has now lapsed, because of the failure of the applicants to secure full planning permission within a reasonable time. This means that any application would now need to start again and, given that the coalition which now runs Broxtowe, and which the Lib Dems are leading members of, have ensured that we now have all the required land supply elsewhere, there is really no prospect of planning permission being granted.
Bramcote Councillor David Watts, who chairs the planning committee on the borough council, said:
"It was a real pleasure to be able to break the news to local residents that the threat to blight their properties has now disappeared. As local councillors we have worked tirelessly with local people to make sure that the proposed scheme, which would have towered over the houses and gardens on Wembley Gardens and Gateford Close, was not given permission. What was being proposed was never the low level development that the inspector who originally gave permission talked about, and was never the right scheme for the golf course.
Residents have had many years of worry about what would happen to their houses and they can at last relax."