Herne Bay Golf Club Developments
I have a copy of the Herne Bay Golf Club Development Vision Document and here is a section outlining the purpose of the document.
The Document is designed to help inform the Council of the
‘Deliverability’ and ‘Sustainability’ credentials of the Site, and provide a
robust evidence base to assist the Council in considering the Site as a
suitable mixed-use allocation in the emerging Local Plan delivering the
following:
• Residential (approximately 400 dwellings);
• Retail (circa 2.9ha);
• Commercial (Employment opportunities circa 0.95ha);
• Medical (Doctors’ Surgery and Care Home);
• Leisure (Public House circa 800 sqm);
• Sports Hub 8.2ha (inc. new sports pitches/Astro Turf); and
• Education (in connection with Herne Bay High).
Copies of the document can be downloaded from the link below
I don’t expect anyone to actually download it, except me for research as it is the subject for my blog and I always knew development of this kind was inevitable.
No signs of the dozers on site yet as I doubt planning permissions are fully in place.
A twinge of sadness as progress marches on and I look back to when I was a child playing, getting muddy in those non-descript places that were quite common back then. Here is a list of the non-descript areas I grew up playing on!
The Quarry
The Orchard
Behind the pre-fabs
The Marshes and along the river, these were mixed with private company land the formally owned local authority land footpaths and the woods, the Abbey etc.
But these were odd spaces where you could ride your bike, build tree houses and dens, fire stones at bottles with catapults and if you didn’t look out: get stuck in quicksand!
That is why I’m interested in this space as it would have been one of the places I would have played in as kid. I walk my dog there and I am half heartedly playing there, drawing little maps and that, naming trees and stashing golf balls in secret places?
Where have those spaces gone? The’re used up?
The ‘Golf Course’ is a rare example of one of those spaces, and I hope the kids make the most of it before the hoardings go up and the diggers arrive.
