Chris Minns’ NSW government has allocated $50m in the budget to halve Moore Park Golf Club to nine holes as part of its controversial plan offer a new public park.
The future of Sydney’s Moore Park Golf Course has ignited renewed scrutiny after internal government documents, cited by The Daily Telegraph, revealed the NSW Government announced plans to halve the layout before key financial impacts were finalised.
The NSW Government’s controversial plan to scrap nine holes from Moore Park Golf Club has become a hot topic in the Australian federal election after the Coalition pledged $1 million to back an alternative proposal aimed at maintaining an 18-hole layout.
High visitor numbers at Sydney’s Centennial Parklands – used to justify carving up half of Moore Park Golf Course for more parks in the city’s CBD – have been “inflated” by the New South Wales Government, according to a report in the Daily Telegraph.
In a piece of visionary thinking, South Australia Premier Peter Malinauskas today revealed plans to transform a mediocre CBD golf facility into a world-class venue capable of hosting LIV Golf Adelaide.
In just nine months since ‘winning’ office, the Minns Labor Government has attacked golf courses, bowling clubs and now racecourses. It appears any green space in Sydney’s metropolitan area is ripe for the picking.
City of Sydney Lord Mayor Clover Moore allegedly lobbied Premier Chris Minns just three months before the government’s announcement to seize up to 20 hectares of Moore Park Golf Course for a new public park, according to a report in The Daily Telegraph.