Brantford’s Arrowdale golf course is up for sale, and residents are fighting it – CBC

Course open since 1927 is listed for $15 million

Jul 16, 2020

A group in Brantford is fighting plans to put the city-owned Arrowdale golf course up for sale, and some members want a judicial review into how councillors made the decision.

Brantford’s city council voted to put the course on the market in December and said that the money would go toward creating affordable housing.

Community members have contested the decision, questioned the process and called the affordable housing reasoning an attempt to “tug on the heart strings of the people.”

Friends of Arrowdale leads the effort to save the nine-hole course. The group had been going door-to-door with petitions and holding fundraising events, but moved its push online once the pandemic hit.

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