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Controversial plans for dozens of new homes on protected land will be decided upon next week. Developer Russell Homes wants to build 61 properties at Stubley Meadows - a nine acre site to the west of New Street, in Littleborough, Rochdale.

A huge new logistics centre just off the M62 has been approved.

A rugby club is planning a major revamp of its grounds - including improvements to its clubhouse, a new 3G pitch and up to 100 new homes. Stockport Rugby Union Football Club is also proposing a 75-bed care as part of the scheme, which includes its base at Headlands Road, Hazel Grove, and neighbouring land south of Jacksons Lane.The combined 20 acre site is split into two main parcels. The first, to the west of Wallbank Road includes the rugby club, its three playing pitches and Wild Things Soft Play Centre. The second, lying to the east of Wallbank Road, covers open fields, a rugby pitch and a small informal private allotment/orchard, south of existing homes on Jacksons Lane. An access track, via Wallbank Road, connects the two.The proposed residential area will occupy the eastern part of the site, with the new 3G playing pitch to the west. Enhancements to the clubhouse will include an extension to provide women’s changing facilities, a first aid room, a larger kitchen/dining area and a disabled lift and toilet.

An historic pub which fell into disrepair after closing its doors three years ago is to be knocked down and replaced with a ‘like for like’ boozer. The Three Arrows Inn - at the junction of Pilsworth Road and Moss Hall Road, in Heywood - has been blighted by vandalism since calling last orders in 2019.

Controversial plans for more than 200 homes in the Saddleworth countryside have been lodged.

direct to your inboxA developer has insisted that a housing estate on a flood plain in Rochdale has not flooded during Storm Christoph after pictures of submerged sections of the site went viral.Thousands of Twitter users have seen and shared images of high water levels at Stubley Meadows in Littleborough where 96 homes are being built in Littleborough.But no homes are being built in the submerged area shown near the River Roch, and Russell Homes say the images posted on Thursday actually show onsite flood water drainage systems are working. The developer’s plans to build on land at risk of flooding were controversially approved by Rochdale council last November despite concerns from some residents.

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