PLANS have been approved to build 17 apartments on a former bowling green behind a Bolton restaurant. The block of flats is set for land behind the Roka Restaurant, Bradshaw Brow, Bradshaw which was previously the Royal Oak pub. The application, by developers Avantgarde, is similar to one they had refused in 2019 for access, design, loss of trees and insufficient information reasons. One fewer apartment was applied for this time and these are now to be accommodated within one L-shaped ‘two and a half’ storey building, rather than in two three storey buildings. Access to the apartments was previously proposed via Back Bradshaw Brow East, along the currently cobbled unadopted road to the park and arboretum, then through a stone wall to the north eastern corner of the application site.