On the face of it, a simple case of supply and demand. Higher prices = less demand.

However, I’m a little uneasy about the words “a six week period”.

Are we comparing “a” six week period during a spell of fine weather in high summer when people wanted to play golf and had longer days in which to do so, against “the” utterly miserable six week period at the beginning of 2010 (winter time) when people were not so inclined to go out and bash a ball around?

Statistics at play here, maybe?

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Murder! For gods sake don’t let this amazing green space go under concrete. The town of Shrewsbury needs to rise and face the developer money boys down because we know our councillors won’t do it for us as their recent backbone bypass operation showed with Tesco.

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It’s fairly obvious whats happening, the council have been offered a huge amount of money for this site £15M ?? The problem is people still want to play golf on it. Solution; put the price up, suddenly less people play and then the money men say its running at a loss. The council then tell council tax payers that they are ‘subsidising’ the people who play the course. This then justifies shutting it and selling it.

Job done!!

Of course as an earlier poster points out reducing the price might bring more people through the ‘door’. Accountants don’t think that way, for some reason a little paying a lot is better than a lot paying a little.

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You are a distrusting lot…………….

GET THE BULLDOZERS IN NOW, Here comes the building company !!!!!!!!!!!!

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If someone was offering me £15M for a golf course when I can buy one with better facilities and greens for less than £3M not too far away I know what I would be doing!
As for reducing numbers a couple of pounds isnt going to make that amount of difference given the vast number of people who pay substantially more for a round of golf at other venues around the county. Suspect falling numbers has more to do with the weather and the economic climate generally than a couple of quid on the price.
Why should golfers continue to benefit from having their leisure pastime being heavily subsisded by us the tax payers when the council is having to look at making cuts in education and other core services.

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what did the buffoons on high expect!!! as the yanks say DO THE MATH

it shows why professionals should be left to run council services like a business without political interference and armies on non job senior managers and policy ‘co-ordinators’

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Cynical ploy; raise the prices, fewer rounds played, equals makes a case for selling it off; Outrageous! Drop the price, more rounds played, increases revenue. Like tax really, lower the tax rates, but collect more tax, total tax revenues go up. However, doesn’t suit the private agenda of some of our Councillor’s! There has been a golf course on this site since March 1892. To even consider pouring concrete on it is an act of wilful enviromental hooliganism, more akin to a region of some Despotic South American country! The damage to the wildlife would be catastrophic, and irrepairable. The loss of mature trees, the implications for rainwater management and the flood plain; more concrete equals less places for water to be absorbed and run-off too, it’s still got to go somewhere.The people of Shrewsbury need more green open spaces, not fewer! What’s the matter with the County Council? Are they really nothing more than a bunch of Philistines prepared to sacrifice the public’s most priceless & precious assets and facilities at the altar of capitalism? There’s a lot more to life than just money!

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As a regular at the course I can categorically assure you that having spoken to the staff there and local councillors

a) maintenence standards have reduced since Shropshire Council took it on

b) when SABC ran the site it made an small profit each year

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amateurs

might as well privatise it to let pros run it

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