Dear members,
thank you for your patience and understanding in the unforeseen delay to us concluding phase 2-5 of our spring tidy renovations.
Here is a quick update:
Phase 1: Renovation of the Princes Suite
Per our previous note, the new Princes Suite design is proving to be incredibly popular with members and visitors to the club. Some finishing touches, including new blinds and a projector screen will complete the redesign. New glass in the blown windows will also add to the new look and feel.
Phase 2: The new Board Room
Just after adding the new veranda, you will recall that we renovated the adjacent Orangery with new flooring and a redecoration. Both course facing additions have, not surprisingly, proven to be well received. So much so that we have added a new radiator to the Orangery and reconsidered the usage of the poorly used pot wash area (as it was too far from the kitchen to be practical). We are now completing the conversion of this area into the 'Board Room'. We have already had a lot of interest in this room to be used for business / conferences as well as private dining, overlooking the course. It is not quite finished but the picture below will hopefully provide a good idea of what we will have created. The flooring will match the Orangery.
Additionally, we have moved our second coffee station into the Orangery to enable a faster self service solution for conferences in the Orangery / Board Room, freeing up staff time.
This renovation also enabled us to tidy the area as you leave the course. New paving has been laid around this area to stop it becoming such a mud bath.
The adjacent shed has also been renovated to enable storage of a range of items which would otherwise clutter the clubhouse.
A second skip has arrived and Luke / Sarah will be ensuring that all the unwanted items are placed in it to keep the area as tidy as possible whilst the work is being finalised.
Phase 3: The New Bin Tidy:
A new area has been created to hold all of the bins in a confined area with easy access for staff and collectors. This will stop bins cluttering the car park. This is nearing completion with just the water grate at the bottom to be finalised. This will enable us to keep this area clean and tidy.
Phase 4: The new Shoe and Trolley Cleaning Area
The first of the bays has now been free'd up to become the new shoe and trolley cleaning area. It will have appropriate space for people to scrape mud into removable 'mud buckets' as well as to use a new compressor gun to finish the cleaning of shoes and trolleys. More to follow on this but completion is March.
Phase 5: Path outside kitchen
The path at the back of the clubhouse often gets muddy and flooded. We will be relaying some of the sunken slabs and improving the drainage in this area. Target date April.
Once again, apologies for the unforeseen delays in completing this work and rest assured that we are moving as fast as we can to complete the renovations which will be of benefit to everyone at the club.
Updates on other areas beyond the buggy sheds will be provided by the Greenkeeping team in due course.
