Sign up to the MySalford newsletter and don't miss a thing happening in and around the city Planning permission to knock down a pub in Irlam, making way for new flats, has been refused by Salford council – but the demolition could still go ahead.
Council planners ruled earlier this year that the three-storey apartment block proposed at the site on Liverpool Road would be 'bulky' and 'over-dominant'.
They said the 'poor' design 'fails to have regard to the context of the street'. The proposed development would also 'fail to provide future occupants of the apartments with a satisfactory level of amenity', the decision notice said.
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