{"id":119978,"date":"2017-09-28T01:20:27","date_gmt":"2017-09-28T05:20:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=119978"},"modified":"2017-09-28T01:20:27","modified_gmt":"2017-09-28T05:20:27","slug":"oakville-ont-council-rejects-bid-to-demolish-glen-abbey-despite-heritage-status","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/09\/28\/oakville-ont-council-rejects-bid-to-demolish-glen-abbey-despite-heritage-status\/","title":{"rendered":"Oakville, Ont., council rejects bid to demolish Glen Abbey despite heritage status"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_119981\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-119981\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/640px-Glen_Abbey_Golf_Course-2016-11-06-003.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-119981\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/640px-Glen_Abbey_Golf_Course-2016-11-06-003.jpg\" alt=\"Glen Abbey golf course in Oakville, Ontario, Canada. (Photo By Whpq - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/640px-Glen_Abbey_Golf_Course-2016-11-06-003.jpg 640w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/640px-Glen_Abbey_Golf_Course-2016-11-06-003-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-119981\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Glen Abbey golf course in Oakville, Ontario, Canada. (<a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=55331625\">Photo By Whpq &#8211; Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>OAKVILLE, Ont. \u2014 \u00a0An Ontario town council has voted unanimously to reject a plan to demolish the historic Glen Abbey golf course despite its heritage status.<\/p>\n<p>Glen Abbey&#8217;s owner ClubLink filed an application Monday to demolish or remove the golf course and some buildings to make way for a mix of homes, offices and stores.<\/p>\n<p>The golf course has hosted the Canadian Open 28 times.<\/p>\n<p>In August, the Town of Oakville voted in favour of designating Glen Abbey as a heritage site, giving it some protection under Ontario heritage laws.<\/p>\n<p>ClubLink had applied to demolish the golf course and several buildings, but some sites, including stables and the Canadian Golf Hall of Fame and Museum, would have remained.<\/p>\n<p>The development plan proposed construction of 141 detached homes, 299 townhomes, 2,782 apartments, retail and office space, as well as parks, open space and natural heritage areas.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OAKVILLE, Ont. \u2014 \u00a0An Ontario town council has voted unanimously to reject a plan to demolish the historic Glen Abbey &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":119981,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,18,21,44],"tags":[25127,25126,1112],"class_list":["post-119978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","category-news-ca","category-real-estate","category-sports","tag-clublink","tag-glen-abbey-golf-course","tag-ontario","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119978\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}