Warringah Golf Club: Plans revealed for eateries and bars in new pokie-free community clubhouse
Details of the eateries and bars in a new northern beaches clubhouse, billed as family-friendly, have been revealed.
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The layout of eateries and bars in a “family-friendly”, poker machine-free golf clubhouse on the northern beaches has been revealed.
Planning authorities have just approved dining and drinking areas to be included in the new, yet-to-be-built, $8.7m clubhouse at Warringah Golf Club.
The two-storey premises, to be located on the eastern edge of the golf course at North Manly, is replacing the old drab and unpopular clubhouse that closed its doors on Condamine St two years ago.
It will feature a restaurant on the first floor, which will seat up to 60 diners, alongside a function room. Both will face a long terrace overlooking the golf course.
A sports bar, capable of holding 50 customers, will be located on the ground floor, near an outdoor garden lounge, accommodating another 50 patrons, next to the pro shop.
As part of the new development application, approved by the Northern Beaches Local Planing Panel, a maximum of 320 people will be allowed in the clubhouse at any one time.
The restaurant and bars, which attracted 81 supportive public submissions, received the go-ahead six months after the state government’s Sydney North Planning Panel granted permission for the “golf and community” clubhouse to be built.
Northern Beaches Council, which owns the golf course, and Warringah Golf Club had vowed to include facilities that were open to the public and other sports organisations, not just club members.
And the new club, which is now approved to operate as a registered club with a liquor licence, will be poker-machine free under an agreement with the council.
It will be built on part of the council’s existing Warringah Recreation Centre, which accommodates tennis, squash and five-a-side soccer courts, at the corner of Pittwater and Kentwell roads.
The centre is set for its own $7.3m revamp as part of an approved council masterplan for the joint sites.
New tennis and squash courts will be delivered by the council, along with more carparking, new landscaping and a pedestrian bridge linking the sites.
Warringah Golf Club is paying for its new clubhouse through the sale of its previous, but increasingly underused, clubhouse.
Club president Scott Campbell said he looked forward to opening the doors to a “family-friendly club, open to the community”.
Mr Campbell said the club was still to decide whether to contract out the eateries and catering, or keep them in-house.
He also said all northern beaches locals were welcome.
“The old clubhouse died, in many ways, because the community didn’t know we were there.
“We want the new clubhouse to be all inclusive and attract the users of the surrounding sporting precinct to come along.
“The wider community will benefit too because there are no other licensed premises between Brookvale and Manly.
“We will be making it kid-friendly, family-friendly.
“There will be no poker machines. That will be an attraction for a lot of people.”
Tender documents to build the clubhouse have gone out to four builders, with work likely to start, once a builder has been chosen, early in the new year.
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