Plans to build five homes on a section of land near to where leisure narrowboats are moored in Wigan’s Bridgewater Canal Conservation have been refused.
The Joseph Unsworth Trust wanted to build two-storey, two-bed houses and three-bedroom three-storey houses on a fifth-of-an-acre of land adjacent to Platt Croft in Leigh.
Notice of the refusal has been posted on Wigan council’s planning portal. There were seven objections to the scheme submitted by nearby residents.
The site would’ve been accessed through Hooten Lane to the south via an unadopted concrete section of road beyond the adopted part at the end of Hooten Lane.
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