The Royal Automobile Club has unveiled a multi-million pound plan for a motor heritage wing, spa, golf driving range and children’s swimming pool on greenbelt land near Epsom.

The historic members-only club, which played a key role in establishing motoring and motor sports in this country, intends to submit planning applications for the redevelopment on its 350-acre greenbelt estate in Woodcote within the next few days.

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The proposed motor heritage wing would replace administrative offices, giving the club the opportunity to showcase vintage cars and material from its archives.

Michael Bedingfield, head of sales and marketing at the club, said: "If you look back to our name and history, we are very much the home of automobile history in Britain."

The Woodcote Park Master Plan also includes the replacement of the club’s current driving range and the development of a spa with a jacuzzi, stream room, sauna and hydrotherapy pool.

The club also wants to create an 88 space car park in addition to its two existing car parks.

And it is seeking outline planning permission to build two new homes in a residential road, the Ridge, in order to fund the redevelopment of a four-acre derelict Grade II listed walled garden and gardener’s cottage.

Within this Victorian walled garden, the club wants to create a bowls lawn, an indoor children’s swimming pool and outdoor kids play and games areas.

Mr Bedingfield said: "What we are looking at is an area for gardeners and an area where children can have a great time at the club."

He said: "Last year we celebrated our centenary at Woodcote Park. What we are trying to do is to make sure the facilities and clubhouse are as relevant to members now and in the future as they were when we became owners of the club."

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Mr Bedingfield would not reveal how much the redevelopment will cost or how it is to be funded.

The walled garden would be opened to the public several times a year and there would be admission by prior appointment to the motoring centre.

The clubhouse is a stately home built by Richard Evelyn, the brother of diarist John Evelyn, in the seventeenth century.

His family later left Woodcote to Charles Calvert, Third Baron Baltimore, who was proprietary governor of Maryland in north America. Lord Baltimore, a Roman Catholic, lost control of the colony during the Protestant Revolution of 1689.

Deadline for feedback to the club on its plans is this Friday, June 27. Call 0800 319 6111 (freephone).

Email contact@WoodcotePark-Masterplan.co.uk

View the plans at www.woodcotepark-masterplan.co.uk

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