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scheme for a unique, sustainable and innovative luxury hotel and spa, underground. The existing golf clubhouse and car park will be demolished and
designed by international hotel and resort architects, ReardonSmith, has replaced by a new clubhouse integrated within the hotel. A dedicated new
been revealed by public exhibition prior to the submission of a planning access road, carefully woven into the landscape, will better manage the flow of
application. The proposed development, at Hersham Golf Club in Surrey, is within traffic onto the site. The proposal also includes provision for extensive on-site
London’s Green Belt and the architects’ response to the area’s strict planning re-vegetation and improvements to local public footpaths to further enhance
guidelines has been to place all 200 plus guestrooms underground around the site.
landscaped courtyards, leaving just one level of public areas visible. “Our concept integrates hotel, spa and golf facilities into a single
The proposal is topped by a living green roof that mimics the undulating architecturally exciting and organic composition below and above ground,”
nature of the golf course and merges it into the surrounding landscape. In total, explains Matthew Guy, ReardonSmith’s project designer.
the ReardonSmith scheme represents in the region of one third less built-up “The design fulfils the requirements of the brief for a bespoke five star hotel
hard surface than the existing club houses and car parking. while returning hard standing to the Green Belt and improving the physical
Hersham Golf Club stands in an area of woodland and the proposal respects layout and visual attraction of the entire site. It represents a commercially viable
and reflects this. Car parking, which is currently above ground, will be relocated solution to developing in the Green Belt and is, we believe, a world-first.”
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