New wine estate planned at luxury golf course in a UK '˜first'
Radical plans are being drawn up to convert part of a top golf club into a vineyard in an ambitious new project thought to be a UK '˜first.'
Mannings Heath Golf Club was recently sold by the Exclusive Group, owners of South Lodge Hotel at Lower Beeding, to rags-to-riches business entrepreneur Penny Streeter.
Now Penny, 49 - who is involved in a number of South African wine and hospitality operations and also runs a healthcare recruitment company in South Africa as well as the UK - is proposing one of the biggest transformations in the Mannings Heath club’s history.
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