PLANS are well advanced for a new public golf course in Huddersfield.

May 14 2009 by Andrew Brook, Huddersfield Daily Examiner

PLANS are well advanced for a new public golf course in Huddersfield.

Anthony Hague, owner of Copley House Farm, has already received planning permission to turn his land in Meltham into a nine-hole course.

Now he is seeking permission to turn the buildings into houses, including one for the golf club manager, and a clubhouse.

Mr Hague said: “It’s just not financially viable to carry on farming here.

“The conditions are very difficult, so there will be no more farming going on.”

He will discover if the residential plans are approved on May 29 with the clubhouse’s hearing on June 18.

The farm is on Slaithwaite Road, the main road connecting Meltham and the Colne Valley, with the entrance to the golf course to be on Deer Hill End Road.

Presently it is a 140-acre dairy farm with buildings for cows, storing feed and a milking parlour.

Mr Hague said: “The farm’s been in my family 80 years but the buildings are over 150-years-old and have come to the end of their working life.