planning permission was only granted in August this year<\/a>.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n\n Ahead of a decision being made, concerns were raised over the noise generated by players using the all-weather courts.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
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\n But Broadland and South Norfolk District Council planners ruled the impact would not be harmful.\n<\/p>\n
\n Alejandro said: “The courts\u00a0had to be suitable for where they were going to be.\n<\/p>\n
\n “It was about listening to what the customer needed.”\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
\n Grant said: “To stop the noise, we considered the orientation of the courts but our location has also been helpful.”\n<\/p>\n
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James Palmer (left), who works at the club, gave the sport a try for the first time (Image: Newsquest) Looking ahead, Grant is keen to see the courts become a space for players to socialise and make the most of the new facility.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
\n He said: “We’ve got a coach coming in, Grace, to help out with lessons, which will be free for beginners.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
\n “I was also thinking of holding padel and prosecco events as well, ” he added.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
\n ![\"The]()
The sport is played using bats (Image: Newsquest)\n<\/p>\n
HOW DO YOU PLAY PADEL?\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n The sport – a hybrid between tennis and squash – is played using bats.\n<\/p>\n
\n The ball, which looks similar to a tennis ball, is\u00a0specifically designed to be slightly smaller, softer\u00a0and has lower pressure to give it a slower bounce.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
\n It’s usually played in doubles on an enclosed court, which is about one-third of the size\u00a0of a tennis court.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
\n The court is\u00a0surrounded by walls of glass and metallic mash.<\/p>\n
The ball can bounce off any wall but can only hit the turf once before being returned.\n<\/p>\n
\n Points can be scored when the ball bounces twice in your opponent’s field.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Grant Pointer, managing director at Norfolk Premier Golf, said he and his dad are glad to see the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":374605,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4106],"tags":[2826,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-374604","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\/115094421659168342","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374604","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=374604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374604\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/374605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}