Liverpool-based golf and leisure company, Green Circle, says its significantly revised masterplan for Allerton Manor Golf Club will create the region’s “premier public golf destination”.

The amended proposals, recently submitted to Liverpool City Council, follow delays to the implementation of the original plans approved in 2019 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and are based on a rethink aimed at delivering the “best possible golf experience” at the South Liverpool pay-and-play course.

One of the key changes proposed is the decision not to deliver the approved driving range at Allerton, with a two-tier modern driving range now being proposed within the submitted masterplan for Kirkby Valley Golf Club.

Sean Moore, golf manager at Green Circle, says: “Covid gave us a chance to take a fresh look at the approved plans for Allerton, but also think through how best we synergise our plans for Allerton and our other course at Kirkby Valley to make optimum use of both facilities, and offer the best possible golf experience for our customers.”

Andrew Craven from golf architects, IDG, which has designed the new course layout at Allerton Manor, adds: “By abandoning the driving range facility and structure, we have much more scope to improve the design for the revised 18-hole Championship Course at Allerton Manor.

“We can create a better and more interesting course, and we can also retain 400 mature trees which were approved for removal in the previous master plan. We are also introducing a lake alongside the access road in between the new 1st tee and 18th green, which will enrich the biodiversity of Allerton and make the most of its exceptional landscape setting.

“The brief from Green Circle was to design the best public pay-and-play golf course in the North West, and that’s exactly what we set out to achieve with the new design.”

The new course layout also allows Green Circle to relocate the new ‘adventure golf’ attraction adjacent to the practice putting green, enabling the repositioning of the 18th green to a location in front of the new clubhouse and terrace area.

Meanwhile, the new clubhouse, redesigned by Liverpool architects Brock Carmichael, now uses local red sandstone rather than grey brick in the main elevations to better complement its landscape and heritage setting.

If approved, Green Circle is promising that the new remodelled 18-hole course will be open by May 2024, with the new clubhouse launched in spring 2025 .

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