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Construction of the community centre/clubhouse facility has progressed to a point where it’s easy and exciting to envisage the finished building, and residents can now start counting down the months to opening week in the first days of spring 2025.
For anyone who hasn’t recently visited the Kingswood gatehouse and surrounds, it’s a most pleasant surprise to see the rapid progress of construction on the new community centre/clubhouse facility when gazing past the driving range towards York Street. In the mid- distance, the roof trusses tower and shine in the light of a bright autumn afternoon.
In the December 2024 edition of The BUZZard, it was reported that civil engineering works and the basement structure had advanced considerably, and brickwork on the ground floor had progressed to a stage where one could already get a proper perspective of what the finished product would ultimately comprise.
Today, construction work has advanced to a point where it’s clear that this much-anticipated addition to the estate’s offerings will be an aesthetically pleasing landmark that residents and golf members will delight in using, and proudly show off to guests and their families.
It has always been a priority for the Kingswood management team to become the Garden Route’s preferred, secure, family-friendly residential golf estate. This new community facility will enable KGO to take great strides forward in its efforts to achieve this vision.
Trustees Jonathan Witts-Hewinson and Tony Jacobsen share the responsibility of leading the community centre/clubhouse subcommittee; below, they update readers on the current state of clubhouse affairs.
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Real progress is now utterly evident
Construction works pertaining to the new community centre/clubhouse facility are proceeding in line with the construction programme. The erection of the roof sheeting is well advanced, and final work to ridges will be done in the coming weeks. It is exciting to see how much real progress has been made to date. Great headway is also being made with the works pertaining to the new practice putting green facility, which will be situated immediately to the north of the community centre/clubhouse site. All things being equal, practical completion of the facility will be achieved by the third week of July and, barring anything unforeseen, the new centre – including the restaurant, players’ facilities and the like – will be operational with effect from 1 September 2025.
Bracing for opening week festivities
The subcommittee is in charge of plans to have an exciting first week of opening events for all homeowners. It is hoped that every homeowner wishing to experience the new facilities – irrespective of whether or not they might be golfers – should have a special opportunity to use the facilities at the new community centre/ clubhouse during the course of that opening week.
In addition to an opening golf day for homeowners only, to be played on 1 September 2025, and a members-only golf day to be hosted on Saturday the 6th, a series of evening events is planned to introduce all homeowners to the new facility.
Because of a number of constraints, these events will be split over three separate evenings, and further news in regard to which phases within Kingswood will be expected or invited on the different evenings will follow in the near future.
Don’t enter, but feel free to appreciate
When in the vicinity of the community centre/clubhouse building site, the bustle of dozens of construction workers, machinery and vehicles of all shapes and sizes is wonderful to behold. But please take note that this is a working construction site and no public entry is allowed.
When looking at the 3D depiction of the expected end product erected at the site, it’s amazing to see how the real-life walls and roofs and outside areas of Kingswood’s newest addition are taking shape to resemble that attractive artist’s impression. Kudos to Jonathan and Tony and their subcommittee members, as well as everyone else responsible for keeping this Kingswood pride project on course.
