The Guardian newspaper has promoted a call by an architect for many of the 94 golf courses in Greater London to be redeveloped.
In an article entitled ‘London golf courses could provide homes for 300,000 people, study says’, the newspaper quotes Russell Curtis, an architect, ‘design advocate’ appointed by London mayor Sadiq Khan and the author of ‘Golf Belt’, a study of how London’s golf courses ‘could help address the housing crisis’ and that ‘courses on public land could be used ‘in a more creative way’ to ease housing crisis’.
Greater London’s 43 publicly owned golf courses take up just under 1,600 hectares (3,950 acres) of land, adds the paper, and this could house the 300,000 people mentioned in the headline.
‘The borough of Enfield alone contains seven courses, but the council receives just £13,500 from Enfield Golf Club…
