Proposals to create the UK’s biggest urban farm and eco-park in Oldham will be referred to government after local bosses gave them the green light.
Councillors have unanimously approved the first major phase of the Northern Roots project, which focuses on the top half of the 160-acre site in Snipe Clough. It will include a visitor centre, with spaces for events and meetings and a café and shop, a natural amphitheatre and performance space as well as a learning centre, forestry depot and solar panels.
The application will now have to be referred to the Secretary of State, where they will have 21 days to decide whether to call it in for further examination. The whole site runs from the Grade Two listed Alexandra Park, past Park Bridge and down to Daisy Nook country park.
