The Cloncurry Shire Council is considering leasing the golf club in Sir Hudson Fysh Drive as a horse paddock.

Councillors wait for further information on the land, such as which areas were suitable for grazing, before they make a decision.

Cloncurry Shire Council chief executive David Neeves said there were several requests in the community for the land to be available for grazing.

“All the infrastructure is there but water,” he said at the council meeting.

“Whoever owns it has free grazing rights for a considerable amount of time.”

Deputy Mayor Bob McDonald said the golf club stopped being used more than 25 years ago due to lack of interest.

“Cloncurry today is totally different from 25 years ago, it was before Ernest Henry, it was before the mining boom,” Cr McDonald recalled.

The community was not always prosperous, and the council depended on its rural ratepayers.

“It wasn’t always like what we see today.

“We went through some pretty dark periods in my time.”