A plan to build hundreds of homes on a golf course in eastern Melbourne has been caught in red tape for almost a decade despite having the support of members. Waverley Golf Club in Rowville merged with the nearby Churchill Park Golf Club in 2016, intending to move to the latter’s Endeavour Hills course and sell its 18-hole facility on Bergins Road in an established suburb to developers. From left: Tania Walsh, Mark Blundell and Matthew Taylor of the Churchill-Waverley Golf and Bowls Club at their Rowville golf course on Monday. Credit: Luis Enrique AscuiBut almost 10 years later, and despite being flanked by a retirement village on one side and homes across the street, the project remains in limbo as it is just outside the Urban Growth Boundary, which state parliament last extended under the Baillieu government in 2012. The boundary juts inward and stops developments in a green wedge south of Rowville, despite also allowing housing sprawl in fields far further from the city, around suburbs like Pakenham.