Newgrove House 191 Ballylesson Road, Belfast, BT8 8JU

Description

Proposed new Golf Club to include an 18-hole signature golf course of Championship standard and club house with associated practice facilities including driving range, putting greens and a maintenance area. Development will involve the removal of various redundant agricultural outbuildings and structures to accommodate change of use with alterations/extensions of the Grade B1 listed buildings (Newgrove House and adjacent workers cottage) to provide a new club house and golf equipment storage cottage, with the erection of additional club house accommodation through a standalone detached single storey building, landscaped setting, and car parking areas. Proposal also includes relocated access and associated improvements from Ballylesson Road, upgrade to internal access road with new laneways and pathways, parking and ancillary site works. Course design to include the re-profiling of ground levels, the incorporation of existing Mill Race into layout, new footbridges, and provision of natural, semi-natural and maintained landscape and new water features (incorporating sustainable drainage principles including the creation of wet and dry swales, attenuation basins and earth berms).