Plans to build five homes on a part of land near to where leisure narrowboats are moored in Wigan’s Bridgewater Canal Conservation area have been submitted.
Applicant John Smith of the Joseph Unsworth Trust wants to build two two-storey, two-bed houses and a three-bedroom three-storey house on a fifth-of-an-acre of land adjacent to Platt Croft in Leigh.
If approved, each house will have a car parking space with two spaces for visitors. Each space is located at the front of the property, allowing for private garden spaces at the rear.
The site, south of Butts Basin, east of Warrington Road/Butts Bridge, has been used for garages and a garden, but is now derelict.
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