Controversial plans for more than 200 homes in the Saddleworth countryside compared to a ‘saveloy sausage’ have been approved despite dozens of objections.
Proposals to build a £3 million road and up to 265 homes on land in Springhead were first refused in November 2018 but subsequently given approval in July 2019. Local campaign group Save Our Valleys raised more than £50,000 to launch a legal challenge to the decision but a judge ruled against their bid for a judicial review in December 2020.
The road was given full planning approval three years ago, but the homes element of the plan for the Knowls Lane site required further detailed permission. Developer Russell Homes subsequently applied to the council for reserved matters permission for 234 homes to be built on the site. These were proposed to be split between five, four, three and two bed houses, which would be a mix of detached and semi-detached.
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