Harpenden Golf Club has submitted plans for two new interlinked reservoirs to be created at the course.
These reservoirs would hold enough water for the business to no longer need to draw water from the town mains supply to irrigate the course.
Currently, Harpenden Golf Club draws water from a borehole for irrigation, with any shortfall taken from Harpenden's mains supply.
The interlinked reservoirs would be created 80m south of the club house, and would be able to store approximately 7,500 cubic metres - around one year's worth - of irrigation water.
A design and access statement attached to the application reads: "Climate change is affecting everyone across the world.
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"Where the primary provision is to provide a recreational and sporting facility for the local and wider communities, the ability to store available water goes a long way to assist with managing the effects of climate change as well as safeguarding the playability and viability of the golf course, thereby retaining the recreational facility as a whole and reducing the need to draw upon a precious water resource."
The full plans can be viewed by using reference 5/2023/2593 on the St Albans City & District Council planning portal.
No public comments or objections have yet been made.
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