That history is not reflected in the current club facilities, and when in 2019 the club approached AST* and Urban Green our landscape and golf course design partners, both members and the facilities were in a state of desperation.

Between 2010 and 2018 a number of unsuccessful planning applications had been submitted by a partner house builder for around 50 units on the practice ground; the club planned to use the income to replace their club house, a tired Victorian farmhouse known as Rhodes House, bought in 1923 along with 180 acres of farmland. In 2020 the club re-optioned the site to a new partner, and AST became involved.

This collection of agricultural and modern extensions were in a very poor state of repair, with the main house, event room, ancillary extensions and green keepers’ residence being unsuitable for re-use given their poor-quality construction, years of poor maintenance and flooding, damp and water ingress issues in basement levels from a badly constructed culvert.