FOI Request - Golf Courses

Request 101003915128

1. Please tell me the size of your local authority (e.g. in hectares).

2. Please provide a list of all golf courses in your local authority.

For each course, please specify:

a) Whether it is publicly or privately owned (or falls into another ownership category).
b) The address
c) The size (e.g. in hectares)
d) A map of the course, if held.

Response 11-02-2026

1. 2238 square kilometres (223,800hectares).

2. Information on all golf courses within the Moray region area is not held. Information that is not held falls under Section 17 of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 - Information not held

In order to be helpful we confirm that the Council does lease 2 golf courses to private clubs. These are Forres Golf Course, Forres IV36 2RD and Keith Golf Club, Keith AB55 5GF. The Council does not hold plans of the courses just lease plans for the lease agreements which may not include the entire golf course. From our asset database the lease of Forres Golf Course is for 45.92hectares and Keith Golf Course 22.27hectares.