Amongst the options that Basildon Borough Council officers are considering for Basildon Golf Course is one for a hotel. There’s no indication of where  on the golf course it could be, but those who occupy their minds which such things need to remember that the Golf Course is in Green Belt. Of course they might be thinking of somewhere closer to the golf club buildings and the ancient barn that BBC rented to the Jack Barker outfit before that company dropped off the scene. Local residents and the Friends of Basildon Golf Course battled hard and long, and expensively, to save the course from corporate vandalism: is another battle looming to protect this unique landscape ? The council has spent millions of ££££s to protect the Green Belt at Dale Farm. Can we expect the same commitment in south Basildon ? So far the signs aren’t good. Despite committing itself to do everything possible to get the Dry Street meadows into the Green Belt in 2006 the council gave up at the first hurdle and has acquiesced in plans to develop those meadows (together with the Basildon College site) for housing and other purposes. They intend to treat them, it seems,  in exactly the same way as they have mistreated parkland at Northlands Park and Kent View Road, looking at these sites with £ signs flickering in their eyes like Tom and Jerry.