Proposals for more than 65 homes on land around Saddleworth’s new high school are to go before councillors. The housing development would neighbour the new £27.5m Saddleworth School site, which opened in March last year.
The site was formerly partly occupied by Shaw Pallet Works which ceased trading in 2006, and has since been demolished. The rest of the land is used for farmland and grazing. An application for 77 homes on land to the east of Huddersfield Road, in Diggle, had been approved by Oldham’s planning committee last year but the plan from WRT Limited never materialised.
Now Redrow Homes Ltd has lodged new proposals for 64 houses and six apartments across two parcels of land. Nine of these would be classed as ‘affordable’.
