Following several comments on the Nextdoor app we contacted the Birch Community who now own the Selsdon Park Hotel and its grounds. We asked if dog owners would still be able to walk their pets in the grounds as had previously been allowed. We received the following reply:
Thank you for contacting our reservations department regarding dog walking on the estate.
We hope you’ve enjoyed walking on our land while we’ve not been using it. Soon, we will begin to enclose the space as we transition the golf course into a wildland with free roaming cattle, pigs and horses, and an abundance of natural habitats.
Keeping our animals and the public safe is our priority, so access is now no longer permitted, and once the fence has been erected, it must not be crossed. This is a privately owned estate with no public right of way.
Should you still wish to continue to enjoy access to the estate, we will soon be publishing details of how to join Birch Selsdon. I will be sure to forward these details on to you as soon as they are available.
Sanderstead Residents' Association 
This is a pity but not unexpected action by a new landowner particularly one seeking to put place holiday cabins, glamping and animals on the property. For years a small band of entrepid and perhaps feisty people have walked on the golf course and through the woods with and without dogs but these ramblings have never created a right of way across this green belt land and neither to my knowledge has any permissive path been granted. That’s a shame because Sanderstead could do with a north-south path footpath connecting Kings Wood with the Addington Road or All Saints Church (There used to be a back entrance to the churchyard). As it is at the moment, entrepid walkers like myself have to divert from a pleasant rural path to the busy Limpsfield Road. Walking the length of Kings Wood and coming from further afield such as Warlingham and Farleigh would be much improved if a footpath could be forged there. Shame really, I would love to see a boundary walk, just needs a few metres between any new boundary fence and the neighbouring properties or, more boldly and beautifully passing inside through the beautiful wooded fringe.
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Andrew, you had gone in the Spam folder! Heather
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I live in Abercorn Close and walk my 14 yr choc lab Denzel up Kingswood Way to Kingswood. Today i noticed wire mesh and 2 strands barbwire at top between wooden posts that have been there some months. I tried to walk down outside of fence for 300/400m but stopped as need a machete to go further….
Is there a boundary fence map with coded gates for guests to use?
Frank
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Thank you for this information. We are trying to find out more.
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