Boundary Lakes Golf Club at Utilita Bowl wants new club house

A planning application was submitted to Eastleigh Borough Council for the erection of a new club house and golf cart store at Boundary Lakes Golf Course.

Boundary Lakes is an established 18-hole golf course which forms part of the wider cricket ground, formerly known as the Ageas Bowl.

The application states that the course does not have its own club house, but instead relies on facilitates at the nearby Hilton Hotel and stadium.

It also specifies the need for car parking at the club house.

The developer said that the absence of a club house and car park results in a 'commercial shortcoming and practical conflict' with the cricket club.

This comes after West End residents have already showed their distaste for building plans around the Utilita Bowl.

On January 14, more than 70 West End residents turned out at the Utilita Bowl to show their disapproval for a 171-home development that residents described as an “unnecessary nightmare.”

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This planning application was previously submitted to the council in September of 2020 but was rejected on the ground that it took away much green space.

This is what the club house could look like if the application was to be approved (Image: EBC Planning)Speaking at a gathering on January 14, resident Gerard Hales, 58, said: “West End has lost so much ecology already. It is in danger of losing its ecological integrity.

“The biodiversity that has now settled in this area for the last 20 years will be destroyed with each of these applications.”

The newly proposed golf clubhouse would be built using dark standing-seam metal cladding.

The Utilita Bowl was known as the Rose Bowl from 1997 until 2001.

The Boundary Lakes Golf Club was opened in 2017.

Prior to the cricket ground being there, the land was used for farming and agriculture.