The Ingol Village Golf Club, which closed in 2010, is to reopen as an eighteen hole course, and the new operators have promised to carry out drainage works and other course improvements. “The Ingol Councillors campaigned very hard alongside the Ingol Golf Village Residents’ Association to keep it as a golf course, and see off the threat from Northern Trust to build houses all over the site” says Cllr Bill Winlow. “We wish the new venture every success – but we must now ensure Northern Trust don’t try to sneak in a planning application around the edges of the site. As far as we are concerned, the whole of the former golf course land is to be retained indefinitely as an Area of  Open Space, kept free from all building”