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New golf course - four years away
WORK started two months ago on the new pay-and-play golf course in North Weald but it will be four years before the course is open to the public.
UK Golf and Leisure which built Stapleford Abbotts Golf Course in the late 1980s is behind the ambitious project which, when completed, will occupy 160 acres of the former Ongar Radio Station site off the A414.
The 18-hole, par 71 course has been designed by Howard Swan, who has designed courses around the world, and has Michael Howard, who was involved with the championship course at Hanbury Manor in Hertfordshire, as its project manager.
The course will be the third in North Weald following the members' club the other side of the Talbot roundabout off Canes Lane, and the pay-and-play par three course in Epping Road.
A spokesman for UK Golf and Leisure told the Guardian: "It won't be open for four years, we're talking summer 2005.
"The more in-depth you build a course, the more earth movements and the longer it takes to construct.
"It's a very good area. There's only one road round the actual site. There are some lovely views all over Essex there. When you look at the farmland, when you're actually on the site, the views you get are absolutely wonderful. The contours of the site are second to none.
"We're spending a considerable amount of money. It will be built to the highest specifications."
The access road off the A414 is well underway and two of the holes have been 'shaped'.
The spokesman said: "The area hasn't got really wonderful golf courses. You've got some nice ones, some really, really nice ones, but we're trying to achieve something really special."
The company last week submitted plans to Epping Forest Council for a single-storey clubhouse.
11:56am Thursday 16th August 2001
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