'We will never give in': Campaigners battling to stop building on historic Salford golf course
Campaigners battling to prevent houses from being built on the site of a now-derelict golf club in Salford have vowed "we will never give up". The 100-acre land which was once Swinton Park Golf Club has been bought by developer Wain Estates for £3 million.
The ultimate goal is to reinstate the golf club - dating back to the General Strike of 1926 - with SSP dismissing claims by former shareholders that it was unviable. Dave Marsh from the group said: "We will do all we can to help the residents to stop any building on the course and work with Salford council to that end.
"If Wain Estates realise that they are not going to be able to build on it for donkey's years, they might sell it back to us for the price they bought it." The former clubhouse is currently boarded up with barbed wire preventing access to the roof, while the course, which stretches from the A580 East Lancs Road all the way to Monton has become unkempt and overgrown.
"Peel did everything they could over a seven-year period to build there, but they couldn't in the end," said Mr Marsh. "I'm 72 years old and I fully expect to be dead and buried before anything is built on Swinton Park Golf Club, if at all."
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