Key planning developments across Greater Manchester

The most objected housing plan in Bury’s history is one of the key developments planned across Greater Manchester recently.

The proposal to create a 275-home estate on former green belt land in Walshaw was only submitted to the local authority a few weeks ago, but it’s already whipped up fury locally. A whopping 1,038 people have submitted comments on the plans via the Bury Council website. 

The plan is the first phase of a wider scheme that aims to build 1,250 homes in the area.

More housing plans, new padel courts and town centre transformations have also been tabled with councils across the city-region.
Here is a breakdown of each borough’s submitted planning applications this week

Bolton
Long-dormant riverside site to be transformed into £100M 12-block town centre community

Long awaited plans to develop the Church Wharf site in Bolton town centre have been submitted.

Manchester-based developer, Watson, has submitted the planning application to Bolton Council for 415 new homes. The four-phase development will also feature a 130-bedroom hotel, as well as commercial spaces for bars, restaurants and shops.

Watson said Church Wharf is designed to complement other ongoing residential developments in the area, including Moor Lane and Deansgate Gardens. The new homes will comprise a mixture of one, two and three-bedroom houses and apartments. Watson said the ‘a selection will be available for affordable tenure’.

Bury
Bid to build 275 homes on green fields set to be the most opposed application in Bury’s history as more than 1,000 object
An application for a 275-home estate on former green belt land is set to be the most objected to planning proposal in Bury’s history.

In the few weeks since Wain Estates submitted plans to transform publicly accessible green fields off Scobell Street into a housing estate, a whopping 1,038 people have submitted comments on the plans via the Bury Council website.

The vast majority of the submissions have been formal objections to the Walshaw-based scheme. 
If approved, the Wain Estates application is the first phase of what could become 1,250 new homes on the wider plot in the semi-rural village of

Walshaw.
Images show how ‘dynamic’ new five-court padel club and cafe will look
Padel courts and a clubhouse are set to be built at a current caravan storage yard. 

Plans have been published this week to create five courts on land at the rear of Eton Hill Road, Radcliffe, currently used for caravan storage. Applicants, Love Padel, said the new sports venue would see the current workshop on the site converted into a clubhouse. 

A design and access report published on behalf of Love Padel said: “It will transform an existing caravan storage yard into a dynamic padel sports facility.

Manchester 
The future of Manchester’s tallest tower is in doubt once again
The future of Manchester’s tallest tower is in doubt as Manchester council will re-assess its planning permission.

Plans to build a 76-storey skyscraper with 452 flats and a 160-bedroom Nobu hotel behind the Manchester Central convention centre were approved last month by Manchester council’s planning committee.

The 246m-tall building, formerly called Viadux 2a and now named Nobu Manchester, will be the city’s tallest once it’s complete, overtaking the 200m-high Deansgate Square South Tower and under-construction ‘Plot D’ block, set to be 213m in height.

But the planning application will be reconsidered in full by the council next week after an administrative error meant a key body was not properly consulted in the process, and submitted an ‘objection which presented new information’ after approval.

Oldham 
First look at how Oldham skyline could be dramatically changed with four huge developments

A new CGI animation of the multi-million pound project shaping the future of Oldham town centre has been shared.

The video, screened for the first time at the real estate conference UKREiff earlier this week, shows how several major developments could change the skyline of the borough. A three-dimensional map outlines plans for four new building complexes that are a part of Oldham Council’s partnership with city-building consultants Muse.

These are the current Civic Centre, due to be turned into a hotel and apartment complexes; the former magistrates court; Oldham’s former leisure centre and ‘Prince’s Gate’; an underused carpark in Mumps, all of which will be converted into housing and shops.

Rochdale
The vision for huge housing estate in a Rochdale suburb

The first phase of a huge new housing estate on grassland in Bamford could soon be delivered.

A parcel of land off Greenvale in the Rochdale area is set to see 43 new homes built on it. This would be the first of 450 earmarked for Bamford by developers Wain Homes.

The new ‘high quality’ family homes would have a mix of two, three, four and five bedrooms, with access onto Greenvale.

Tameside
The HSBC bank closed two years ago, now it could become apartment block
The former HSBC bank in Ashton could soon be transformed into apartments.
The branch located on the corner of Stamford Street Central and Mill Lane in the town centre closed down in August 2023. It was one of the 114 HSBC branches that closed across the country.
Now a plan to convert the building into five new apartments has been tabled by the applicant, Mr Ayokunle Alade. This would comprise three one-bedroom apartments and the other two having two bedrooms.