Cut through the noise by getting the day's biggest stories sent direct to your inbox Previously rejected plans for three accommodation blocks to house 100 people close to Royal Bolton Hospital have been revived.
Dorbcrest Homes have lodged planning documents this week for two, four-storey blocks with 16 five-bed multiple occupancy units.
A third three-storey block would house a further two multiple occupancy properties and eight flats. Similar proposals for the land on a disused railway line off Minerva Road in Farnworth, were turned down by councillors last July after they heard fears that the building could overlook neighbours and that the development would have a lack of private amenity space for residents.
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