Work begins to tidy up St George’s Golf Course
After years of neglect, the St George’s Golf Course is getting a make over from a team of four workers under the direction of the Parks Department.
“When you believe, you can achieve,” said St George’s North MP Kenneth Bascome, as the long grass was finally cut on the unused course.
“Government has found some funds so that we can attempt to restore an area which was becoming an eyesore for guests at the St George’s Club and residents of the area.
“We’re endeavouring first of all to clean the area up. There’s a lot of overgrowth. It’s my hope that Government will see the significance of putting a nine-hole course in place there,” the former St George’s mayor said.
A community clean-up set for January 25 will tackle more of the shaggy foliage at the long-defunct course.
The team hopes to make the course presentable over the next nine weeks, Mr Bascome said.
“It’s been closed for four years, so it’s not an easy job, but patience conquers all.”
The jobs initiative was a promise in the last Throne Speech, and Mr Bascome said there had been “much in the way of naysayers” about the restoration.
“We hear in Parliament about collaboration, transparency and consultation — my question is where was all this when the golf club was demolished and the golf course closed?”
“Nine weeks’ work won’t deliver a playable course — but “anyone who saw what it looked like is going to be totally impressed by what has been accomplished”, Mr Bascome said.
The St George’s Community Centre has adopted an East End bus shelter that had fallen into disrepair.
The building at the top of Barrack Hill got its damaged roof repaired last year by a team from Works and Engineering.
But young members of the community group, assisted by the police community action team, did an “outstanding job” on the facility, according to area MP Kenneth Bascome.
