A NEW Viking-themed adventure golf course AND foot golf course could be on their way to Wirral after plans were submitted to the council.

The new facilities would be built at Moreton Hills Golf Centre, with the 30-space car park doubling in size.

The application for the extension to the current centre, which has been running since the 1980s, was validated by the council last week.

The site currently has a 30-bay driving range, shop, short game area and putting green.

But the application by John Andrew would also see an extension to the site’s existing building to include a teaching room and indoor golfing simulators, as well as a reorganisation of the putting green.

The Viking-themed golf course would be a circular route, and include a “variety of interesting and tricky obstacles for players to putt through”. The obstacles will include alleyways, bridges and tunnels.

It would sit alongside a foot golf course – a game where players kick footballs into larger holes using the fewest possible shots.

A planning statement said: “The proposed development seeks to maintain the long term financial viability of the site. The proposed adventure golf course and relocated putting green would be considered to be recreational activities which is supported by both Wirral Council’s Unitary Development Plan and the National Planning Policy Framework.”

According to the statement, in the summer months, the site on Tarran Way is currently popular and busy, but that changes during the winter.

With the popularity of golf decreasing and it being seen as an “older gentleman’s game”, the plans aim to provide a stable business model “as well as increase a wider range of visitors and players to the site”.

The facility would be similar to the Championship Adventure course in New Brighton, but with the hope that families and young players will eventually become members of the driving range.

The application continued: “[It] would be a minimal size to accommodate the facilities needed to maintain the long-term survival of the site. The car parking extension would have little to no impact on the wider openness of the Green Belt. There are a number of similar proposals throughout the UK within the Green Belt for the redevelopment of golf courses with similar ideas to the current proposal.

“The proposed extension is to facilitate the long-term survival of the golf centre.”