'Serious questions need to be asked': Site earmarked for new primary school lost

manchestereveningnews.co.uk:

A site earmarked for a new primary school has been lost because planners failed to acquire land promised by a developer. Bolton Council’s chair of planning said he was ‘absolutely appalled’ that the authority was having to relinquish its rights to a large plot of land within the Beaumont Rise housing development.

A meeting of the council’s planning committee heard the issue centred around a housing scheme near Wigan Road and Hulton Lane, which was originally approved in 1988, and built over the next 15 years.

There was a legal agreement within the planning conditions to transfer 1.5 hectares of the development site to the council for a one-form entry primary school.

However, that agreed land transfer did not happen. At the time the plot was described as ‘land lying between Knutshaw Bridge and Everbrom Road’.