Belvedere Golf Club

June 23rd 2013 the Belvedere Golf club was shut down, making ten staff redundant. This was not a shock closure, as it was common knowledge the club was struggling due to dwindling custom. There is still a store and golf range further up the road from the old club that seems to do a good steady business. Apparently soon after the clubs closure, permission was granted almost immediately for a 82 bed care home. The only reason these plans have not gone ahead seems to be quoted as a 'lack of demand' in the local community for a care home. In March 2017 more building permission was granted for a new estate build, a total of 23 new homes on the grounds. These have yet to go ahead.

In March 2014, police arrested seven men and one woman on the site for growing 1,500 cannabis plants, with intent to distribute. As you can see from some of the pictures, upstairs was totally stripped out for the plants, and some paraphernalia can still be found littered around the building.

The whole building is in a terrible state, and most of the rooms downstairs are saturated with water and made moving through the building hazardous. Later on after our explore we discovered the area directly behind the building was actually the infamous Dale Farm. In 2011 Dale farm was the largest traveler's community in Europe. It housed over 1,000 people and the eviction of the majority of traveler's from the greenbelt area was well reported on by local news.