{"id":375807,"date":"2025-08-26T20:18:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T20:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/375807\/"},"modified":"2025-08-26T20:18:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T20:18:11","slug":"dunton-hills-golf-centre-closed-due-to-developments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/375807\/","title":{"rendered":"Dunton Hills Golf Centre closed &#8216;due to developments&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Dunton Hills Golf Course, in Tilbury Road,\u00a0permanently closed last week after almost 30 years &#8220;due to recent developments&#8221;, according to the business&#8217; website.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The\u00a0course, between Dunton in the Basildon borough and West Horndon in the Brentwood borough, was based on land earmarked for the new Dunton Hills Garden Village.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  This will feature 3,700 homes, community and sports facilities, and four schools.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  A statement on its website says: &#8220;Due to recent developments Dunton Hills Golf Centre is now closed.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;Our main phone line (01277 812340) will remain open temporarily to answer any enquiries.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The development, by Commercial Estates Group, was approved by Brentwood Borough Council in March.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  In the masterplan for the development, it states\u00a0the manicured golf course will be replaced by fenland meadow within the floodplain of the Eastlands Spring, with existing ponds being &#8220;retained and enhanced through planting to promote biodiversity&#8221;.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;Within this meadow a series of new ponds will allow for the translocation of Great Crested Newts and promote a wetland habitat for migrating birds,&#8221; it adds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dunton Hills Golf Course, in Tilbury Road,\u00a0permanently closed last week after almost 30 years &#8220;due to recent developments&#8221;,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":375808,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4106],"tags":[2826,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-375807","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\/115096919021706335","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375807","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=375807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/375808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}