Disabled guests to the golf course at Allen Park in Antrim may have improved entry to the inexperienced because of the supply of buggies.
A report back to Antrim and Newtownabbey Borough Council’s Operations Committee, which meets on Monday night, signifies that two electrical motorised golf buggies have been bought by the native authority for public use on the course.
The report says that this can “facilitate entry to the course extra readily for these with mobility/incapacity points”.
It's proposed that a fee for his or her use on the nine-hole and 18-hole programs at £10 and £20 can be charged respectively.
Allen Park, at Fort Street, covers an space of roughly 143 acres which has the addition of three man-made lakes. It additionally includes a 20-bay driving vary.
In the meantime, 15 places inside the borough have been permitted for the On-street Residential Charging Scheme (ORCS) for electrical automobile cost factors for inclusion in a joint utility with different native authorities in Northern Eire.
Every location was topic to preliminary evaluation by the Division for Infrastructure and NIE Networks for suitability. Seventy-five per cent of funding can be offered by the UK Authorities’s Division of Transport and the remaining 25 per cent by the Division for Infrastructure.
Councillors have been instructed that after put in, fees can be levied to be used and that the operation of the cost factors, together with tariff setting and upkeep, can be undertaken by a 3rd occasion contractor for your complete community of 124 chargers. which is predicted to value within the area of roughly £1.35m to have them up and working by subsequent June.