Hot on the heels of recent decisions to radically alter the public golf landscape in our nation’s two largest cities comes news plans are well advanced for a Landcom development of 2,100 homes that will subsume parts of the highly-ranked Forster Tuncurry layout on NSW’s Barrington Coast.
Ranked 77th in Golf Australia Magazine’s Top-100 Public Access Courses in the country and recent host of the NSW Women’s Open, the course stands to lose the current 5th, 6th, 13th, 14th and 15th holes to the NorthTuncurry development, with a requirement to dramatically rework at least another seven holes. Vacating the existing clubhouse, built only a few years ago with $3 million of government funding, and re-locating closer to a new village precinct is also included in the proposal.
Changes made to the State Environment Planning Policy allowed some 300 Crown Land hectares of virgin bush to be rezoned for urban development,
