A GOLF club owner has been ordered to restore a strip of woodland after ripping up trees to make a path for golfers.
About 30 trees have been pulled out of Carr Wood, in Sedgefield, by developers extending Knotty Hill Golf Course.
Sedgefield Borough Council's development control committee yesterday made the wood, which is designated as an ancient semi-natural woodland by English Nature and part of a County Wildlife Site, the subject of a tree preservation order.
The owner will be asked to replant the area.
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