Given my recent experience of 'planning in action' it is probably true.
My strip was alongside a golf course. Originally farmland, the owner went through all the hurdles necessary and it was officially opened by our local councillor.
2 years later Jim put in alternative tees to save the wear on the originals. The council then took enforcement action for unpermitted development.
There were 6 tees which were about 20 foot square and about a foot high, grassed naturally and with gentle sloped up to them (so the mower was able to cut them without problems....... On a site of approximately 200 acres.
Absolute nonsense. But unfortunately true.