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Search the Public Notice PortalOne of Norfolk's most historic golf clubs has been given the go-ahead to move two of its holes under threat from an encroaching North Sea.
Gorleston Golf Club, which boasts the UK's most easterly course, sits on one of the fastest-eroding stretches of coastline in Europe.
This week it won planning approval from Great Yarmouth Borough Council to relocate holes four and five after both were identified as being at immediate risk of being lost to the sea.
The decision will come as a relief to the 2,500 golfers who visit the 120-year-old club each year.
Council officials had warned that losing the holes would "severely affect the viability" of the club.
The new plans will see the two at-risk holes moved approximately 400 metres inland onto land the club already owns, creating a buffer zone away from the crumbling clifftop edge.
Officials at the club - located between Gorleston and the village of Hopton - said the southern half of the site had borne the brunt of the erosion while the northern end was better sheltered due to the sea wall at Great Yarmouth.
The club has been preparing for this moment since the early 2000s, when it purchased 50 acres of land as a safeguard against this threat.
Work is hoped to get under way this spring, with the revamped holes pencilled in to be ready for play by 2028.
The approval was granted subject to conditions, including the club satisfying biodiversity net gain requirements and receiving sign-off from the county ecologist before work can formally begin.
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