Plans for a pub beer garden controversially turned down at the final vote are to be brought back before councillors because of a procedural error. A high-spec design for the Edison on the thriving Monton Road in Eccles was put before Salford's planning and transportation regulatory panel.
Two neighbouring residents of Alfred Street voiced strong objections to the plan followed by a vociferous debate about the plan among panel members. Four councillors voted to approve the application but included in the four that voted against it was chairman Coun Ray Mashiter, which proved decisive.
However, Edison owner Kevin Grannell received an email from Salford's planning department the following day saying the application would need to go before the next panel meeting again next month. According to the city council's legal advisers, once councillors had voted not to approve the application, a second resolution to refuse it stating the reasons should have been put to the vote. This did not happen.
