A MULTI-MILLION pound golf course and 20 luxury holiday cottages in Oaksey have gone up for sale.

Oaksey Park and the nine-hole golf club, set in 65.5 acres, has been put on the market with agents Strutt and Parker.

The sale of the club and 20 holiday cottage lets has generated concern among the community as to what the future might hold for the business and the impact on people living in the nearby area.

Oaksey parish councillor Roger Squance, who chairs its planning committee, said: “We don’t want to see that site over-developed.

“We struggle with traffic in the area as it is and there have been increasing amounts of traffic over the years with other developments.

“The golf course is OK (in terms of traffic) but there’s the holiday lets over on one side.

“If there are any major developments on the lets front that’s where the problem will come from.”

The mature parkland golf course, founded by John Cooper in 1989, features a clubhouse (opened in 2004), and an à la carte restaurant and conference rooms.

The company, which went into administration in June this year, had been a family-run business with Mr Cooper’s son Cameron taking over as head greenkeeper.

The holiday lets, with planning permission for 12 more properties, are also highlighted in the agent’s sales information as having the potential to ‘create a residential investment’ with the possibilty to build more units on the site and ‘generate strong investment returns’.

A spokesman for the agents, Chris Gooch, said: “With the Cotswolds’ increasing popularity as a short-break destination and the growing trend for ‘staycations’, the sale of Oaksey Park presents a great opportunity to acquire a thriving holiday businesses in an attractive and affluent part of the country within striking distance of London.”

Parish council chairman Robin Rogers said: “I think it’s fair to say that villagers are quite anxious about what the outcome will be.

“We will be delighted if it was bought by someone who could turn it into a happy and successful business.

“As far as I am aware there is no one in the village that works in the club.”