A golf club has revealed plans for a new ‘high quality’ driving range and pitch and putt course. Stockport Golf Club, in Offerton, is drawing up proposals for a short game course and driving range with ‘fairways, target greens, teeing off points and bunkers’.
It would make use of an underused practice area and separate grazing paddock at the Offerton Road course to create new facilities spanning 13 acres of green belt land. A new access road and car park are also proposed. The proposals are outlined in papers submitted to the council ahead of a full planning application being lodged later this year.
They describe Stockport as one of the ‘premier’ golf clubs in the North West, providing locals with a ‘fantastic facility’ and employing more than 20 staff.
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Papers add: “Stockport Golf Club, in conjunction with Booth Ventures, is committed to improving the practice facilities and to encourage all to participate in the sport with a view to providing an Academy for the sport, which will provide further employment opportunities.
“Currently the nearest such facility is in the Macclesfield area and such an improved all year round practice area would be a great asset to Stockport, the local community and the surrounding areas.”
