Many golfers in Swindon will be teed off at the recommendation to approve a plan which they say will hurt the development of the game.

Plans by Twigmarket Ltd, which runs the public Broome Manor Golf Complex in the south of the town to make significant changes to the centre will come up for discussion and decision by councillors on Swindon Borough Council’s planning committee next week.

The company wants to create a three storey driving-range including a raised external terrace, and a pool/snooker room and bar/function room. It wants to dig out a lake within the driving range.

The plans include the creation of eight all-weather floodlit football pitches, and extra parking as well as of an adventure golf course, an aerial high ropes course and the re-location of the petanque pitch.

Jeremey Sturgess, director of Twigmarket said: “This is a much-loved public leisure facility and the objective is that it remains that way whilst appealing to a more diverse and numerous demographic than the current rather narrow ageing golfer profile.

“Both the proposed football and the adventure golf will help turbocharge a new younger more socially diverse generation of Swindonians to use this amazing facility and secure its future for the long term, exactly as has been successfully done at our sister site at Trent Park GC [in North London].

The report to councillors by the council’s planning officers recommends they approve the scheme and says: “The proposed development is acceptable in principle and would not harm the character of the area, residential amenity or lead to any highway safety dangers.”

But many users of the course are upset – the plan for extra parking and the all-weather football pitches will need three of the complex’s nine-hole course to be built over, reducing it to six holes.

A total of 98 objections were made against the scheme, many focussing on the loss of part of the shorter course, saying it would decrease access to gold for newer players, or the elderly or those who do not have the capacity, game or time to play 18 holes of golf.

South Swindon Parish Council, ward member Jane Milner-Barry and South Swindon MP Sor Robert Buckland all wrote as well, to object to the plans

The planning committee will meet at 6pm on Tuesday 11 October in the council chamber at the civic offices in Euclid Street. Members of the public will be able to attend.