‘I paid to live on a quiet, tree lined street. Now it could be ruined’ – Manchester Evening News

It was the location for two short-lived but admired TV shows. Scenes were shot on the quiet tree-lined avenue for last year’s “magical” BBC comedy, Film Club. It had been created by its star, Stockport’s Aimee Lou Wood, .And back in 1969 and 1970 Jack Rosenthal’s sitcom, The Dustbinmen, was filmed there. But Ashbourne Grove in Whitefield is now at the centre of true-life drama. The stakes for two opposing sides are high. Halfway down the road of mainly immaculately kept semi-detached homes is the 122-year old Stand Golf Club. It is thriving with 550 members including a growing junior section. Click here to get the biggest stories straight to your inbox in our Daily Newsletter But the clubhouse is in a poor state of repair. It means its use as a venue for hire to provide a second source of income is no longer feasible. The controversial solution is to build a new clubhouse on greenbelt land the club owns off Ringley Road at the other end of the golf course. It would be financed by selling the land on which the existing clubhouse stands for a housing development. The proposal is for 45 homes of two to four
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