Plans for a new estate of 112 homes have been delayed as the developer was offering no contribution to community services and infrastructure or building any affordable homes. Morris Homes North Ltd hope to build the homes on land north of 659 Radcliffe Road in the Darcy Lever area of Bolton.
A meeting of Bolton’s planning committee heard the site is currently used for the most part for caravan storage with a house for the business owners and associated outbuildings. The green field part of the site is used for grazing horses.
Eight of homes planned would be on land designated as green belt and therefore subject to increased protection. A footpath at the site would also need to be diverted if the plans were approved. Objections to the plans were received by the council from 16 nearby addresses.
