Plans approved to turn Bury’s ‘historic’ Heaton House into 23-bed HMO flats

manchestereveningnews.co.uk:

A historic building close to Bury’s Gigg Lane stadium has been granted permission to be converted into several houses of multiple occupation (HMO flats).

Heaton House, on Brierley Street, Fishpool, which was previously used as a Rathbone skills training centre, can now be transformed into six HMOs to house 23 people.

The building, 100 yards from the football ground, dates back to the late 1870s and is considered to be a non-designated heritage asset given its local importance as a historical building.

Planning consent for a similar application was given the go-ahead four years ago but the proposals did not go ahead ‘due to the internal works not being in accord with the approved drawings’.