Ghetto Golf reveals plans for beach-themed bar

GHETTO Golf wants to open a beach-themed bar next door to its Digbeth venue – which would feature two-storey tall fake palm trees.

Plans have been submitted to Birmingham City Council applying to change the use of the business office premises at 42 Heath Mill Lane, which neighbours the popular indoor crazy golf attraction on the corner of Gibb Street.

The aim is to convert it into a Birdies Bar replicating the set-up in Liverpool where the venue is in close proximity to the city’s own Ghetto Golf. The development would feature shipping containers, stacked on top of each other and painted in graffiti, creating an enclosure at the front.

A design and access statement, submitted with the plans, said: “The Birdies Bar proposal is themed around the concept of beach bar.

“As such a large external beer garden area, half covered by a glass canopy, is proposed at the premises entrance.

“This would be enclosed on three sides by containers that would be painted in a branded graffiti and framing an existing site entrance onto Heath Mill Lane and a new pedestrian entrance onto Gibb Street.”

It adds that the scheme “stops short of creating a false beach of any sort”.

A new secondary entrance from the new attraction directly into Ghetto Golf is also proposed to “encourage synergy to the trade between the two businesses”.

The application also provides a number of images showing what the Liverpool venue looks like to give Birmingham revellers a glimpse of what they could expect.

The plans are currently subject to a public consultation which ends on July 18.

People can take a look at the documents by entering the reference code 2019/03953/PA on the planning search section of the city council’s website www.birmingham. gov.uk

Ghetto Golf appears confident of winning permission from the authority with its own website saying Birdies Bar is “coming soon to Birmingham”.