Two new apartment blocks will be built in Oldham after contentious plans for a shop in one building were dropped by the developer.The council’s planning committee has approved two applications for residential developments in the borough.The decisions will see 21 apartments built on the site of the former Fytton Arms pub at The Green.A petition against the original plans had been signed by 247 people and a further 12 had objected individually.The applicant, Clements Court Properties Ltd, had initially proposed 14 flats and a shop on the ground floor.But in July councillors had deferred a decision on the application after a letter sent out to objectors giving them notice of the meeting included the wrong deadline to register to.
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