The club had backed a bid to sell the land, off Gartree Road and Stoughton Drive, to Morrison Community Care, arguing that giving up 1% of its land would help secure the future of the other 99%.
Jenny Joannou, a Conservative city councillor and member of the council’s adult social care panel, told the hearing the need for care provision outweighed potential harm to the green wedge land.
She added: “If we don’t get this, Leicestershire Golf Club will go under. And it is the jewel in the crown in Evington. Everybody knows it, everybody loves it.”
The developer argued the site would have created up to 100 full-time jobs, added £3m to the local economy each year, and prevented bed blocking in hospitals, according to the Local Democracy Reporting Service.
Nadir Khan-Juhoor, from the developer, said the care home could have been operational by 2028 and that demand for care services was going to increase.