Proposals have been submitted to convert a hotel and golf course in the West Country into a private dwelling. Tracy Park, located near Bath, which features two championship 18-hole golf courses and a Grade II listed hotel with 40 rooms, was previously up for sale with an asking price of £12 million.
The property, which covers over 200 acres, served as the Tracy family’s residence for 300 years before being transformed into a golf hotel in 1974. The Shaw family purchased it in 2019 and expressed their desire in 2021 to develop the estate, situated in the Green Belt and Cotswolds Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, into one of the region’s leading four-star hotel and leisure complexes.
However, in July this year, it was communicated to golf club members and those who had events booked, including weddings, that the business would be shutting down at the end of September.
Currently, Lord Architecture, based in Bath, has drafted a comprehensive planning statement for South Gloucestershire Council, detailing their client’s plans to revert the estate back to residential use.
A statement with the application says: “Tracy Park is an historic estate situated five miles to the north-west of Bath’s World Heritage Site. Today the estate comprises over 240 acres of land, nine statutory Grade II listed buildings, additional ancillary non-designated buildings and two 18 hole golf courses.
“As a private residential estate for circa 800 years a collection of ancillary buildings have arisen and evolved around a principal Manor House. Tracy Park was sold at auction and converted to a golf and leisure complex with the Manor at its epicentre, hosting conferences and weddings.
Tracy Park
(Image: Lord Architecture)
“In 2024 the last in a series of commercial operators ceased trading and sold the estate to the current owner. In recent years many of the buildings on site have fallen into a state of disrepair and are inneed of restorative works.
“Despite the significant investment of several experienced commercial operators and a plethora of approved planning and listed building applications, many of these implemented over the past five decades, Tracy Park as a commercial venture has been deemed unviable by its most recent owner, operators and their specialist advisors
“The return of Tracy Park to a residential estate will secure much needed investment in the buildings and the wider site and ensure the longevity of Tracy Park for this and future generations.
“The proposals seek full planning permission and listed building consent for the change of use of Tracy Park Estate to residential. This application does not seek any physical internal or external alterations to any of the designated or non-designated heritage assets within the collective of buildings at Tracy Park. Nor does this application seek to alter the ability to understand, experience or appreciate these structures or setting of the site.”
The statement assures: “The change of use will not result in any harm to the listed buildings or their setting but would rather preserve and enhance them for the benefit of this and future generations.”
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