Plans for 255 homes on mostly green belt sites along with a £2.6million restoration of a section of canal have been unanimously thrown out.
Developers Watson Construction wanted to build homes on sites at the former Creams Paper Mill, Mytham Road and Hall Lane in Little Lever.
The proposals also included £2.64m project to create and restore tow paths along the Bolton and Bury canal and to repair a breach, dating back to 1936 in that waterway as well as a path linking the Hall Lane development to Moses Gate country park. READ MORE: Woman, 44, died weighing just three stone after 'catastrophic' NHS failures and neglect The former Creams Paper Mill is allocated for housing, though the development site extends beyond that area into green belt
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