Bosses are to pull the plug on a long-awaited redevelopment scheme at Oldham Mumps after plans for a new hotel fell through.
The saga of the Prince’s Gate project to regenerate the area around Mumps, which has been in the pipeline for a decade and spanned five council leaders, has encountered yet another setback. In November opposition councillor Howard Sykes complained it has taken longer to deliver the project than ‘it took to put mankind on the moon’.
In 2019 Oldham council entered into a legal agreement with Lidl and an unnamed hotel operator to deliver a mixed-use project on the site. Lidl had confirmed last year it intended to move forward with creating a foodstore, with leaders saying that a planning application was expected during 2022 – but which failed to materialise.
