Pymble Golf Club set to knock down its clubhouse after apartment complex approved by NSW government

What happened: Pymble Golf Club has succeeded in its bid to build residential apartments overlooking its fairway. 

• The project will turn what was once the course's clubhouse and parking lot into a mid-rise housing complex looking onto the upper North Shore golf course. 

• Golf has been played in the area since the 1920s, when upper North Shore areas like St Ives were still used for cattle grazing. 

• When the club was formed in 1926, one of its earliest actions was to fence the greens to keep cows and the occasional bull off the fairway

Council opposition: The proposal has been opposed by Ku-ring-gai council, who cite traffic problems and lack of infrastructure. The decision to rezone the land was handed down by the NSW government.

• The proposal will change a small parcel of land on the golf course from medium to high density zoning. 

• According to planning documents, only an approximate 10,000 square metres will be affected, and the course will maintain its 18 holes.

More to come: In September this year, a development application for another mid-rise residential building facing the course, just down the road, was lodged.

This development will turn the empty lot on 46–50 Cowan Road into an apartment complex just across the road from St Ives Shopping Village.

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