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The planning application relates to a property in Little Lever(Image: Manchester Evening News)<\/p>\nThese are all the significant developments tabled with councils across the city-regionThe planning application relates to a property in Little Lever(Image: Manchester Evening News)<\/p>\n
A plan to build a garage that ended up being a house has sparked controversy this week.<\/p>\n
What was supposed to be a double garage in Bolton<\/a> ended up as a single-storey home on the grounds of the Grade II-listed Ladyshore House. Now retrospective plans have been put in in order to keep the house.<\/p>\n If plans are not approved, the home may have to be torn down.<\/p>\n Elsewhere in Oldham<\/a> and Chorlton<\/a> this week, there are big plans to transform their centres. The final decision on replacing Oldham\u2019s Civic Centre and Queen Elizabeth Hall with housing is impending.<\/p>\n Over in Chortlon, the Chorlton Cross shopping centre has been touted for demolition, with six blocks of flats and shops eyed up in its place.<\/p>\n Here is a breakdown of each borough\u2019s submitted planning applications this week<\/p>\n Bolton They had planning permission to build a garage – but built a house<\/strong><\/p>\n A bungalow has been built despite the site only having planning permission for a double garage.<\/p>\n The single-storey home was built in the grounds of the Grade II-listed Ladyshore House, which lies on a private road in Little Lever, Bolton. A retrospective application has been submitted to change the use of the building, which is within the green belt, to a home.<\/p>\n Plans for a double garage at the site were approved by Bolton council in 2019. But according to documents published by the town hall, work on a single storey home was completed instead in April, 2022.<\/p>\n The retrospective plans state the building is \u2018of ostensibly the same size, design and positioning\u2019 as the original proposals but adds that the \u2018as-built\u2019 bungalow is higher, longer and wider than the approved garage plans.<\/p>\n Read more here<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Bury New ‘temporary’ entrance to Bury town centre tram stop will be needed for at least three years<\/strong><\/p>\n A temporary new route to Bury<\/a> town centre\u2019s tram stop is to be created as plans accelerate to demolish and rebuild the towns\u2019s transport interchange.<\/p>\n In the past few days, a planning application has been lodged by Greater Manchester (TfGM), which seeks to build an access staircase between Angouleme Way underpass and the Metrolink<\/a> platform. The new entrance is needed while the redevelopment at Bury Interchange \u2013 expected to take three years \u2013 takes place.<\/p>\n The site in question is a portion of the footpath which runs parallel to the Metrolink platform on the underpass below Angouleme Way before gradually stepping up to meet Angouleme Way.<\/p>\n Read more here<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Manchester Manchester suburb’s ‘beating heart’ will be ‘turned inside out’ with huge new plans<\/strong><\/p>\n New plans to transform the \u2018beating heart\u2019 of a Manchester suburb by \u2018turning it inside-out\u2019 have been finalised.<\/p>\n A massive project to demolish the Chorlton Cross shopping centre and replace it with six blocks of flats featuring ground-floor shops, a new \u2018makers\u2019 yard\u2019, and green spaces was submitted for planning permission last week.<\/p>\n Developers PJ Livesey say Chorlton will undergo a huge change as the shops will turn the suburb\u2019s centre \u2018inside-out\u2019.<\/p>\n Read more here<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Oldham Former Civic Centre and Queen Elizabeth Hall to be bulldozed for housing<\/strong><\/p>\n Major plans for Oldham include bulldozing the town\u2019s iconic brutalist events space, the Queen Elizabeth Hall, alongside the former council offices.<\/p>\n The theatre\u2019s days have been numbered ever since surveyors discovered RAAC (Reinforced Autoclaved Aerated Concrete), a material prone to collapsing, in 2023. In its place, Muse intends to erect a six-storey U-shaped residential block with 93 apartments – 35 one-beds, 52 two-beds, and six three-beds.<\/p>\n The developers are also seeking outline permission for a further 745 apartments across five buildings ranging between 11 and 16 storeys. Some of these would also feature shops or communal areas in their ground floors.<\/p>\n Planning saga at Oldham Mumps could finally be resolved<\/strong><\/p>\n After several previous plans fell through, a plot of land at Prince’s Gate, near Oldham Mumps may finally find a new lease of life as a residential block.<\/p>\n Formerly tipped for development into an M&S and then a Lidl store, city-developers Muse now intend to turn the space into 331 new flats across three towers. The 16, 12, and six storey high apartment blocks will contain 159 one-beds, 141 two-beds and 31 three-bed units.<\/p>\n The red-brick structures, designed to blend in with nearby architecture, will also feature communal areas, co-working spaces and cycle storage. Commercial units will also be integrated into the ground floors, which could become home to \u2018retail, caf\u00e9, creche, health service or educational use\u2019.<\/p>\n Salford The plans which some fear could ‘destroy’ a Salford community<\/strong><\/p>\n Between the red-brick terraces of Ordsall, Manchester\u2019s glimmering towers come into view.<\/p>\n Soon, Salford<\/a>\u2019s side of the River Irwell could get a skyscraper of its own, with plans for one of the country\u2019s biggest buildings more than 70-stories tall at Regent Retail Park.<\/p>\n Plans by Henley Investment Management to build 3,300 homes in a massive development are approaching decision time.<\/p>\n A source at the council said the plans could be decided at a crunch planning meeting on July 17.<\/p>\n Read more here<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Stockport Concern over certain element of Stockport County’s stadium expansion plan<\/strong><\/p>\n A patch of \u2018valuable\u2019 woodland is at the centre of a row over Stockport<\/a> County\u2019s stadium expansion.<\/p>\n Campaigners say the club\u2019s plans would cause ‘irreversible’ damage, with the loss of a woodland area behind the Together Stand to make way for a new car park. The Hatters want to add more than 7,000 seats in a stadium redevelopment.<\/p>\n The club hopes the land behind the south stand could become an 86-space car park.<\/p>\n A final decision will be made by the town hall’s planning and highways committee on July 3.<\/p>\n Read more here<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Tameside Plans for Greater Manchester’s newest Lidl take step forward<\/strong><\/p>\n Lidl is pushing ahead with plans to build a new store in Audenshaw.<\/p>\n Earlier this year the discount supermarket revealed their intention to build a new site where The Pearl Restaurant currently resides on Manchester Road, Tameside<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Indian restaurant\u2019s lease comes to an end in 2029, after which the supermarket hopes to build its new store.<\/p>\n The supermarket has recently contacted the council\u2019s planning team to see if prior notification is needed to demolish the restaurant.<\/p>\n Read more here<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Trafford Former home of GMP HQ to be demolished to make way for Man Utd fans car park<\/strong><\/p>\n The site once occupied by the headquarters of Greater Manchester Police<\/a> could make way for parking spaces for Manchester United fans and Victoria Warehouse gig-goers.<\/p>\n The owners of the empty 12-storey building vacated by the force in 2011, the Far East Consortium (FEC), have submitted a planning application which would see the remainder of the building – its former communications hub – demolished.<\/p>\n A separate application has been received by Trafford<\/a> council\u2019s planning team from the Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA).<\/p>\n It proposes to turn the land where the building stood into an \u2018event only\u2019 car park for a temporary period of two years.<\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/1751145072_956_2_JS373418297.jpg\")
A retrospective application has been submitted to change the use of the building (Image: Manchester Evening News)<\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/0_JS337593615-1.jpg\")
Bury Interchange is set to be rebuilt<\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/0_Warwick-Road-view.jpg\")
More than 250 flats are coming in the plans(Image: PJ Livesey via planning documents)<\/p>\n![\"The](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/0_250424oldham8.jpg\")
The Civic Tower might be turned into a hotel. (Image: Sean Hansford | Manchester Evening News)<\/p>\n![\"If](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/0_Princes-Gate-CGI-Oldham-Muse-project-at-Oldham-Mumps.jpg\")
If granted, the new scheme would spell the end of a long-running planning saga. (Image: Muse \/ Oldham Council)<\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/1751145074_880_0_JS373016167.jpg\")
A picture of Ordsall in Salford. Image taken by local democracy reporter Declan Carey in June 2025.<\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/0_JS372341170-1.jpg\")
How Edgeley Park could look in the future. Image: Stockport County. Free for use by LDRS partners.<\/p>\n![\"Lidl](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/0_Lidl-store.jpg\")
Lidl store similar to the one envisioned for Audenshaw(Image: Lidl GB)<\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/0_The-former-GMP-headquarters-car-park.jpg\")
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