Sign up to the MySalford newsletter to keep up with what's happening in and around the city Plans to build eight houses on a former bowling green which hosted festivals and community events for many years have been approved by Salford council.
The land behind the Rock House pub in Barton will be used for housing. It comes after calls for the plot off Peel Green Road to be used for allotments – but landowner Punch Pubs was not willing to sell the site for these purposes. READ MORE: This green space was used by a community for years – now it could become housing Salford council's planning panel approved the application on Thursday (July 29) after deferring its decision on the proposal at a previous meeting on June 3.
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