Plans have been submitted to create new water storage reservoirs at a village golf club in a bid to reduce its environmental impact.
Harewood Downs Golf Club in Cokes Lane, Chalfont St Giles has applied to the council to build three new reservoirs near its clubhouse.
If approved, the new development would see drainage water from around the course collected in the reservoir to be reused in maintaining the grass.
This would mean the club wouldn't have to draw water from the mains in a move that it says 'goes a long way to assist with managing the effects of climate change'.
In the proposals, submitted to the council last week, it says: "Climate change is affecting everyone across the world and whilst the political drive is for everyone to make lifestyle changes, there is also a high level of importance when determining any means to make changes to safeguard businesses and for golf, where the primary provision is to provide a recreational and sporting facility for the local and wider communities, the ability to store their available water goes a long way to assist with managing the effects of climate change as well as safeguarding the playability and viability of the golf course, thereby retaining the recreational facility as a whole and reducing the need to draw upon a precious water resource from the local authorities.
"A number of golfing bodies, such as the Sports Turf Research Institute and the major golfing bodies; the R&A and England Golf, are advocating the need for golf clubs to look at measures to harvest water by sustainable means during the wetter and inclement times in order to become less reliant on the use of town mains water when irrigating the golf course during the spring and summer months."
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If approved, the scheme would see around one full year's worth of water stored on-site with a borehole being used to collect it.
The new reservoirs would be located around 200 metres to the southwest of the clubhouse which is currently made up of grass, shrubs and trees.
A consultation on the plans is currently underway and is due to end on December 4.
The council is expected to make a decision on the plans by February 11.
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