Plans to build more than 70 homes on land around Saddleworth’s new high school have been approved despite ‘heartfelt’ objections from residents.
A majority of councillors on Oldham’s planning committee voted to allow a 77-home estate to be built on land to the east of Huddersfield Road in Diggle.
The site was formerly partly occupied by Shaws Pallet Works which ceased trading in 2006, and has since been demolished, and includes fields used ‘occasionally’ for pasturing horses.
