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Open Country: Hoylake: Green Belt and Greens

Hoylake: Green Belt and Greens

01/09/2016

BBC Radio 4 - Open Country, Hoylake: Green Belt and Greens

Helen Mark finds out how a proposed golf resort in Hoylake will affect the green belt.

A new golf resort has been proposed for Hoylake, Wirral. Helen Mark explores how this will affect the area's green belt, including its birdlife and wildlife.

A new golf resort has been proposed for Hoylake in Wirral. Helen Mark explores how this will affect the local green belt and the birdlife and wildlife that live there. 

Helen speaks to Andrew Needham from the Council for the Protection of Rural England about what constitutes green belt land and why a golf course may be permissible. John Hutchinson from the Hoylake Golf Resort Committee talks about his opposition to the resort and how it will destroy a much-loved piece of land. Dr Hilary Ash takes Helen bird-watching for some of the thousands of Black Tailed Godwits that use the existing land as part of their migration. Craig Gilholm shows Helen around the Royal Liverpool Golf Club and recalls how the Natterjack Toad almost halted the Open in 2006, and local resident and golfer David Stacey explains why the lure of a new Championship Golf Course would be an asset to the area. Cllr Gerry Ellis says this proposed resort is the biggest issue he's faced as a Councillor and explains why he's less optimistic now that the resort will ever go ahead.

Producer: Toby Field.

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