FARINGDON Tennis Club has won permission to build houses on its courts more than 10 years after submitting its original planning application.
The club is now planning to sell its facility in Southampton Street – which it says is cramped and out of date – to a housing developer and build new courts near Bloor Homes’ Folly Park estate.
That is being given to Vale of White Horse District Council by the developer.
Club chairman Sjoerd Vogt said: “I would have been very surprised and disappointed if the deal hadn’t gone through.
“This is good news for everyone in the community and it’s going to be a fantastic new facility.”
The Faringdon resident said he hoped the club’s 130 members would be playing on the new courts this autumn.
He also said he was confident of selling the old courts to Witney-based Builders Ede, and said the only hurdle to the club’s plans now was the transfer of the proposed club site from Bloor to the district council.
The council gave planning permission to the club for five two and six three-bedroom houses on April 9.
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