A furious row has erupted between councillors over the decision to bid for a new national transport body to base its headquarters in Bolton town centre.
Last year, transport secretary Grant Shapps confirmed that Great British Railways’s head office would be based outside of London. He also announced a competition to decide the location.
Bolton Council has now formally submitted a bid to the Department for Transport. However, a member of the Horwich and Blackrod First Independents party, who have three members, has accused the council’s Conservative leader Coun Martyn Cox of a ‘betrayal’ of the people of Horwich and accused the Conservatives, with whom his party has a working arrangement to help keep them in power, of making ‘disastrous decisions’.
