GB03. GOLF COURSES
(updated: June 29, 2006 )

• Detailed Topic Index / Main Planning bibliographies Index
• For relevant addresses, telephone/fax numbers, email and website addresses see
  PLANNING AND PLANNING RELATED ORGANISATIONS

  See also the index to the Countryside Planning & Green Belts bibliographies and in particular:-

• Agric. / AONBs / Archaeology / Coastal plg. / Commons & village greens / Community forests /
  Comparative rural plg. / C'side management / C'side plg. (gen.) / C'side stewardship /
  Green belts (gen.) / Gypsy & traveller sites / Landscape / National Parks /
  Recreation/leisure plg. / Redundant military bases / Rights of way / River valleys & flooding / Rural design /
  Rural emplt., diversification & regen. / Rural hsg. / Rural pressure groups / Rural settlements /
  Rural services / Rural social exclusion / Rural sustainability / Rural tourism / Rural transp. /
  Telecommunications masts / Trees, forestry & woodlands / Urban fringe / Wind farms
• and also:-
• Biodiversity / Ecology / Sus. agric. & forestry / Sus. tourism / Water resources in the Sustainable Development bibliography
• Central gov (& plg.) / Local gov. (& plg.) / Partnerships in the Central & Local Government context for planning bibliography
• Development Plans: (Regional plg. / Structure plg. / LDDs & LDFs / Local plg. / Unitary Dev. Plans (UDPs),
• Open space, playing fields (including sport) in the Local Planning bibliography
• Plg. aid / Plg. conditions / Plg. consultancy / Plg. enforcement / Plg. implementation / Urban Design in
  the Effectiveness of Planning etc. bib'y
• Urban leisure plg., open space & recreation in the Urban Regeneration bibliography
• N.B. also the RTPI library catalogue on the web - go to http://www.rtpi.org.uk/library/lib_search.html
• the Golf Foundation website: http://www.golf-foundation.org

OFL = Ordered for Library; see University Library catalogue for latest on availability:
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/library/
* indicates most up to date and/or useful references

Bailey, James, 1992, 'Guidelines for the development of new golf facilities in Surrey', (3 volumes including database and revised database), Surrey County Council.

Barrett, James & Montclair, N.J et al, 2003, 'Golf Course Irrigation', Wiley-Academy, ISBN 04711483

Bennett, Roger, 1995, 'Golf facility planning: A Methodology for dealing with new applications', The Sports Turf Research Institute, Bingley, West Yorkshire.

British Association of Nature Conservationists, 'Golf courses: friend or fore for the countryside', BANC, March 1993.

British Institute of Golf Architects, 1991, 'The positive face of gold development', British Institute of Golf Architects.

Cobham Resource Consultants, 1991, 'Study of gold in Scotland: Research Reprot no. 19, Cobham Resource Consultants, Scottish Sports Council, December.

Countryside Commission (former; part of the Countryside Agency since 1.4.99; publications now available from
TCA Publication Sales, Wetherby, Yorkshire
'Golf courses: a position statement', CCP 365, 1992. (free). ISBN 0 86170 330 8
'Golf courses in the countryside', CCP 438, Countryside Commission, 1993.

Davenport, Kate, 'Is gold driving too hard?'. Leisure Management, November 1990.

Department of the Environment (DOE) (former; from June 1997 to June 2001 part of the
Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions, DETR):
'Planning Policy Guidance Note 17: Sport and Recreation', HMSO, 1991 (due for revision by the DETR in 2000)
(DOE and the Welsh Office), 'Planning Policy Guidance Note 2: Green Belts', HMSO, 1995.
'Planning Policy Guidance Note 7: the Countryside, Environmental Quality and Economic and Social Development', HMSO, March 1997.

East Sussex County Council, 'Planning guidance for golf course developments in East Sussex', East Sussex CC, 1991.

English Golf Union, 1991, 'Public Footpaths and Bridleways on New Golf Courses', EGU.

English Heritage, 1991, 'Golf Course Proposals in Historic Landscapes', EH, London.

English Sports Council (now renamed 'Sports England'):
'Planning for Golf', Factfile 2: Planning and Provision for Sport, ESC, 1994.
'The Demand for Golf - After The Boom', Factfile 2: Planning and Provision for Sport, ESC, 1994.
'Planning for Sport and Recreation in Green Belts' (Factfile 2: Planning and Provision for Sport), ESC, 1994.

Essex Planning Officers' Assocation, 1990, 'The Essex golf report', Essex Planning Officers' Association, October.

Etchell, Jon, 1992, 'Golf answers back', Landscape Design, May, pp41-43.

European Golf Association Ecology Unit, ?, 'An environmental strategy for golf in Europe,' 1995, available from Nature Conservation Bureau, 36 Kingfisher Court, Hambridge Road, Newbury.

Golf Research Group, ?, 'Financial performance of UK Golf Developments', available from (020) 8987 9950.

Georgian Society, Garden History Society, Association of Garden Trusts, 1991, 'In the rough?', (on golf courses impact), GS/GHS/AGT.

GMA Planning, 1991, 'There's Golf..and there is golf,' Planning 920, 31.5.91.

Jones, Graham, 1996, 'Planning lead needed when golf boom is back on track,' Planning 1175, 28.6.96.

Muirden, Muriel, 1998, 'On the fairway', Leisure Management, January, pp20-22.

Murdoch, Jonathan & Marsden, Terry, 1992, 'A Fair Way to Plan?' Assessing the Golf Course boom,' The Planner 78 (16), 4.9.92.

Percy, Richard, 2001, 'Sporting provision of increasing relevance' (in planning), Planning 1402, 19.1.01.

Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews, 1989, 'The Demand for Golf', Royal and Ancient Golf Club, St. Andrews.

Scottish Golf Course Wildlife Group, 1999, 'Nature Conservation and Golf Course Development: Best Practice Advice', Scottish Golf Course Wildlife Group.

Scottish Sports Council, 1991, 'Golfing in Scotland: developing local provision' (information Digest FPS), SSC, November.

Sports Council (now Sports England etc.):
'Study of Golf in England,' 1992.
'Planning for Sport and Recreation in England and Wales,' OCP, 1993.

Sport England, 16 Upper Woburn Place, London WC1H 0QP,
tel. (020) 7273 1500, fax. (020) 7383 5740:
'The Value of Sport', Publications Dispatch, PO BOx 255, Wetherby, LS23 7LZ, tel. (0990) 210255, fax. (0990) 210266, 1999.
'Planning Policies for Sport: A land use policy statement on behalf of sport', Sport England, November 1999.

Strutt & Parker, 1991, 'Facing up to the Golf Course challenge', Strutt & Parker, London.

The Scottish Office, Edinburgh (former): Scottish Office Development Department Planning Advice Notes:
PAN 43: Golf Courses and Associated Developments, 1994.

Walker, Tony, 1995, 'Golf: where to from here?', Report for the Natural and Built Environment Professionals (Ambit Publications), August, pp16-17.

Wheat, Sue, 1995, 'Marking golf's car', Leisure Management, May 1995, pp26-28.

Wilkinson, Jackie, 1995, 'Southern region seeking a fair way to gold provision', Planning, 2.6.95, pp20-21.

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