A developer has revealed plans to build 300 new homes on green belt land next to a popular Greater Manchester beauty spot. Bloor Homes has drawn up early proposals for an ‘attractive and vibrant’ neighbourhood bordering Hollingworth Lake, in Littleborough, Rochdale.
The 50 acre site - bound by Lake Bank, Hollingworth Road and Rochdale Canal - is included in the region’s controversial Places for Everyone development plan submitted to the government for approval in February. Dubbed ‘Land North of Smithy Bridge’, Bloor Homes says the development presents ‘an excellent opportunity to deliver a high quality housing scheme’ in an attractive setting.
But the emerging proposals - seen by the Local Democracy Reporting Service - have not met with a warm welcome from everyone after a presentation was shared with local people and community groups. Littleborough Civic Trust - formed more than 50 years ago to protect the town’s heritage - has already attacked the plans on its Facebook page.
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