'This is a stitch up...' the controversial plans which have left locals fuming
manchestereveningnews.co.ukA controversial children's home will be built in Hyde despite locals speaking against the plans at a tense meeting of the planning panel.
One objector called the process 'a stitch up' as he left the room after calling the panel chair, Coun David McNally, a 'gobby git'.
The man’s anger was apparent immediately after they approved the plans to transform an end terrace home on Clarendon Road into a care home for two children with emotional and behavioural difficulties. READ MORE: Why councils spend millions on big projects but still say they have no money Some of the 103 objectors joined by Coun Andrea Colbourne came to the meeting to share their grievances with the plan - which did not sway the panel from agreeing with the officers recommendation to approve the development.
The planning panel, meeting at Guardsman Tony Downes House in Droylsden, also decided on an extension for the Village Hotel in Ashton Moss as well as a new 35-home apartment block in the site of an old Ashton nightclub.
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