{"id":605283,"date":"2025-12-01T12:55:24","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T12:55:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/605283\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T12:55:24","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T12:55:24","slug":"plans-to-build-houses-at-golf-course-on-cotswolds-beauty-spot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/605283\/","title":{"rendered":"Plans to build houses at golf course on Cotswolds beauty spot"},"content":{"rendered":"

Development bid at The Cotswolds Lakes<\/p>\n

Peter Davison, Local Democracy Reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n

06:00, 01 Dec 2025<\/p>\n

The development site(Image: Local Democracy Reporting Service)<\/p>\n

Plans to build a dozen houses at a golf course will be discussed by planners next week.<\/p>\n

Cotswold Ecohomes wants to build 12 new homes at Oaksey Park Golf & Leisure, a nine-hole golf course in The Cotswolds Lakes<\/a> (formerly Cotswolds Water Park) near the Gloucestershire border.<\/p>\n

Planning permission for 12 holiday lodges was granted in 2005 \u2013 the fourth phase in the creation of a number of such lodges at the site. But they were never built.<\/p>\n

Earlier this year, the developer approached Wiltshire Council with plans to build houses for the over-55s.<\/p>\n

But following an objection by Oaksey Parish Council, who said that what the village needed was families, not retirees, the application was revised.<\/p>\n

New plans, to be discussed by members of the Northern Area Planning Committee next Wednesday (December 3), would see 12 two-storey three-bed houses built in Cotswold stone.<\/p>\n

As the number of proposed houses totals more than five, an allocation of affordable houses would have been expected. However, all will be sold at market value, with the developer making a contribution to Wiltshire Council of nearly \u00a3350,000 to provide affordable housing elsewhere.<\/p>\n

The council’s own planning department is recommending to councillors that they grant planning permission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Development bid at The Cotswolds Lakes Peter Davison, Local Democracy Reporter 06:00, 01 Dec 2025 The development site(Image:…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":605284,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4106],"tags":[33823,12028,2826,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-605283","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-cotswolds","9":"tag-gloucestershire","10":"tag-golf","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115644422334242872","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605283","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=605283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/605284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}