Plans have been submitted to build a 98 room hotel and spa on the edge of the National Forest in Leicestershire.
Golf club operator Sparsis Leisure wants to develop land next to Forest Hill Golf Club, Markfield Lane, Botcheston, a few miles west of Leicester.
Five years ago the owners of Leicester City Football Club briefly considered redeveloping the golf club as a site of its new training ground. Nothing came of that and the £100 million training ground was built in Seagrave in the north of the county instead.