Plans for a 98 room hotel and spa at a golf course on the edge of the National Forest have been rejected.
Golf club operator Sparsis Leisure had applied to develop land next to Forest Hill Golf Club, in Markfield Lane, Botcheston, a few miles west of Leicester. Leicester City Football Club briefly considered redeveloping the golf club five years ago as its new training ground, but the £100 million training ground was built in Seagrave in the north of the county instead.
Last year Sparsis Leisure applied to Hinckley and Bosworth Borough Council for outline planning for the new proposals months after another, bigger hotel scheme, was turned down.