Golf club opens bar and restaurant extension without planning permission – Nation.Cymru

The entrance to Llanyrafon Golf Club. Picture: Google Street View Twm Owen, Local Democracy Reporter  A golf club has extended its council owned clubhouse to open a bar and restaurant without planning permission. Ten Bar & Kitchen has been operating at the former council-owned course since opening in December 2024 and now employs 10 full time staff and a further 20 part-timers. But Llanyrafon Golf Club only applied for planning permission for the extension, and for change of use permission, in April 2025 just over three months after the bar opened at the Cwmbran venue shortly before Christmas 2024. Both applications have now been approved by the planning department of Torfaen Borough Council. The course was previously managed by the authority but is now run as not-for-profit community enterprise. Works at the clubhouse included adding a golf simulator, a bar and extending the kitchen to include storage and preparation areas. Decking and seating have also been provided outside. Other changes include a dark, grey roof canopy, aluminium doors and windows and black and timber cladding. Planning officer Mia McAndrew said, in her report, the extensions and alterations had “modernised” the building but said as an isolated structure on a golf
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