Spa and holiday lodges plan for golf course site

The greens and fairways of the Kyngs site have been closed since 2016

Plans have been put forward to build 126 holiday lodges and a spa at a mothballed golf course in Leicestershire.

Market Bosworth's Kyngs Golf and Country Club has been closed since 2016.

But Statue Homes has since gained permission for a new clubhouse, a 50-bed hotel and six lodges, said the Local Democracy Reporting Service.

Now the company has asked Hinckley and Bosworth Borough Council for consent to build a "golf leisure and health spa" and a further 126 lodges at the site off Station Road.

The spa would include a swimming pool, hydrotherapy, training and ice plunge pools, saunas, treatment rooms, gym, dance studio, health and beauty shops and a "health bar".

The 126 holiday lodges would be "located at the upper northern reaches" of the course and accessed by electric buggies.

Planning documents submitted to the council said the spa and holiday lodges will only be used by the members of the club, or people who are playing the course.

Nearly 30 people previously objected to the hotel plan, which were was approved last year, with complaints including the golf course was not operational and that the town did not need a hotel.

Twenty-three people objected when two subterranean lodges were approved.

Comments on the latest application can be made until 27 January.

This news was gathered by the Local Democracy Reporting Service which covers councils and other public service organisations.