The now-closed Gulf Harbour Country Club. Photo: Supplied / Facebook
An Auckland councillor says the demise of a premier coastal golf course is a worry not just for neighbours, but for the whole Hauraki gulf region.
The owners of the Gulf Harbour Country Club on the Whangaparaoa Peninsula had informed members that the 18-hole golf course was closed.
Neighbours were fearing that developers could be eyeing it up for more properties.
Councillor John Watson said the area already had a history of housing intensification,
"The whole of the Gulf Harbour development had quite significant intensification back to the mid 2000s," he said.
"That intensification was allowed on the basis that there was this golf course there to really offset the requirement for open space and to balance the much higher level of intensification."
He said he would work to ensure the covenants that protect the golf course were not over-ridden.
Watson said it was important to keep coastal areas of the Hauraki Gulf as green spaces.