Development bid at The Cotswolds Lakes
Peter Davison, Local Democracy Reporter
06:00, 01 Dec 2025
The development site(Image: Local Democracy Reporting Service)
Plans to build a dozen houses at a golf course will be discussed by planners next week.
Cotswold Ecohomes wants to build 12 new homes at Oaksey Park Golf & Leisure, a nine-hole golf course in The Cotswolds Lakes (formerly Cotswolds Water Park) near the Gloucestershire border.
Planning permission for 12 holiday lodges was granted in 2005 – the fourth phase in the creation of a number of such lodges at the site. But they were never built.
Earlier this year, the developer approached Wiltshire Council with plans to build houses for the over-55s.
But following an objection by Oaksey Parish Council, who said that what the village needed was families, not retirees, the application was revised.
New plans, to be discussed by members of the Northern Area Planning Committee next Wednesday (December 3), would see 12 two-storey three-bed houses built in Cotswold stone.
As the number of proposed houses totals more than five, an allocation of affordable houses would have been expected. However, all will be sold at market value, with the developer making a contribution to Wiltshire Council of nearly £350,000 to provide affordable housing elsewhere.
The council’s own planning department is recommending to councillors that they grant planning permission.
