Blacktown. Proposal to buy golf course

The 40-hectare Ashlar Golf Club, in Blacktown, is negotiating with Urban Pacific, the developer of Sydney’s first Greg Norman-designed golf course, Stonecutters ridge, at Colebbe. Urban Pacific NSW general manager, Paul Hedge, said it had offered to buy and relocate Ashlar to the $25 million Stonecutters Ridge, to open in 2010. “We are looking to develop (Ashlar),”he said in The Sunday Telegraph. Club members have not yet voted on the proposal.