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Local resident David Marsden said: “Granting this application establishes a worrying precedent – that our public parks are at the disposal of commercial interests.”<\/p>\n

While the land would be fenced off, a gate would have to be kept open to allow public access under the terms understood to have been agreed with Sefton Council, the Local Democracy Reporting Service<\/a> said.<\/p>\n

The R&A does not own golf clubs or courses, but is responsible for organising major tournaments such as The Open, and is one of the sport’s main governing bodies worldwide. <\/p>\n

A spokesman for The R&A, said: “A new grass practice tee pad is required to stage The 154th Open at Royal Birkdale and future championships.<\/p>\n

“Utilising a small parcel of land adjacent to Hillside Golf Club for the tee pad is the only viable option. <\/p>\n

“Public access to the area will be protected and the land will remain public under the planned lease arrangements. <\/p>\n

“The public will be able to use the footpath as normal and the change will deliver a 10% net biodiversity benefit.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Local resident David Marsden said: “Granting this application establishes a worrying precedent – that our public parks are…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":368424,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4106],"tags":[2826,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-368423","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115080773289664993","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=368423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368423\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/368424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}