direct to your inboxCampaigners have lost a legal challenge against plans to build 265 homes and a £3.5m new link road on protected green land in Oldham after raising more than £40k for the fees.A judge has ruled that the permission granted by the council’s planning committee last summer for the controversial Knowls Lane application will stand.Residents in Springhead and Grotton have been fighting the hybrid planning planning application by developer Russell Homes for several years.The council’s planning committee had initally refused the plans in November 2018, to the delight of more than 2,000 objectors.However a second application – which was heard at an extraordinary meeting of the committee in July 2019 – was approved.Russell Homes.
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