The chair of Bolton’s planning committee said he is ‘angry’ with council officials who failed to tell him about a court case which quashed approval for a new supermarket in the borough.
Coun John Walsh said the first he heard that a high court judge had quashed planning permission for a new Lidl store and retirement flats in Bromley Cross was when he saw it on social media.
He has now said he has received a ‘contrite apology’ from planning officers who did not inform councillors during the legal process and promised that ‘lessons must be learned’ from the blunder.
