THE integrity of Bolton’s entire planning system was at stake with the Grundy Fold part-built homes inquiry, a leading councillor has said. On Wednesday, the Planning Inspectorate rejected appeals from the owners to save the five luxury million pound detached properties, at Grundy Fold Farm. They were built outside the agreed permission, on an open, rural, hillside off Chorley Old Road, between Horwich and Doffcocker. The ruling means that enforcement action issued in 2018 from Bolton Council to demolish the homes remains in place and must be done within the next 12 months. Ward councillor and cabinet member Andy Morgan said if the inspector had ruled that the homes could remain where they are and be completed it could have led to to a free for all for developers in the borough.
Five £1m luxury mansions to be torn down as they re built one third bigger than planned
Stunning drone footage reveals the vast estate at the centre of a bitter five-year planning row which will end with the six-bed detached properties being demolished
Five £1m luxury mansions to be torn down after they re built bigger than planned (Image: SWNS)
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Five brand new £1million luxury mansions will be torn down because plots were 33 per cent too big after homeowners desperately battled to save them during bitter five year-long planning war
Six-bed detached properties in West Pennine moors are up to a third bigger than they were permitted to be
Bolton Council issued an enforcement notice for demolition in 2018, prompting a five-year planning row
Planning inspector has given householders 12 months to demolish structures and return site to previous state
Grundy Fold Farm FIVE partially-built mansions have been ordered to be torn down after a planning inspector dismissed appeals from the house owners. The luxury detached properties, at Grundy Fold Farm, off Chorley Old Road, for which Bolton Council issued an enforcement notice for demolition in 2018, were up to a third bigger and in different locations than allowed, a planning inquiry heard. The inspector has now given the householders an extended period of 12 months to demolish the structures and return the site to its previous form. That period has been extended from a six-months due to the ‘hardship’ the decision will impose on the appellants.
Multi-million pound Bolton mansions could be demolished for being too big
The homes were built and sold before the council ordered them to be demolished
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Planning permission was granted in 2014 for the conversion of a former farmhouse (Image: Copyright Unknown)
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