Decade-long plans to regenerate Oldham Mumps with a new retail development have been axed – and council bosses say the site could now be used for housing instead.
A contract agreed in 2019 with Lidl to deliver a food store and a 68-bed hotel on the Prince’s Gate site has now been formally terminated.
Although chiefs said Lidl was willing to pay the agreed sale price and develop the food store, due to market volatility they could not commit to the hotel development – which would have been operated by a hotel chain.
