RESIDENTS could see their homes demolished in plans to build on a former city golf course.

Developer Bromford Housing plans to build 40 homes on the old Tolladine golf course and properties in Darwin Avenue, could be demolished to make way for an access road.

Darwin Avenue resident Katherine Baker has spoken out after Bromford Housing revealed its plans ahead of submitting a formal application to Worcester planners.

Miss Baker said she is one of three tenants living in a Bromford Housing property that had been informed of the plans to build 40 dwellings.

Miss Baker said: "I’m one of their tenants in Darwin Avenue whose house they are intending on demolishing, meaning they are forcing me to move out of my home in order to gain an access road."

Jo Fieldhouse, Bromford’s head of locality, said: “We have been engaging with customers on Darwin Avenue for a number of weeks and although it’s still very early stages we were keen to get their views over proposals for the adjacent Old Tolladine Golf Course site as quickly as possible.

"We are completely sympathetic to any distress experienced by the customers living in these three properties and are working as transparently and as closely with them as possible to understand their individual circumstances before any formal planning permission is submitted.”

The golf club, which was Worcester's oldest, has been derelict since its closed in 2006 when the bulldozers moved in. The club, founded in 1898, was forced to close because of mounting debts of more than £125,000 and vandalism at the site.

The club was also targeted in a suspected arson attack in which £6,500 of damage was suffered.

Previous planning applications at the site have also been been fought by residents including in 2005, when Vodafone applied for permission to build a permanent mobile phone mast on the golf course, and in 2010 when there were plans to build 11 new houses.

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