DEVELOPMENTS could completely change the landscape of Bolton in 2021, with much to look forward to according to town hall chiefs. From new housing, to business and retail units, investment has continued to flow in to Bolton despite the coronavirus pandemic. Bolton Council’s deputy leader, Cllr Martyn Cox, who is responsible for regeneration issues in the borough, told The Bolton News: “Despite the pandemic and the economic challenges we have faced this year, I’ve been encouraged to see so much interest in Bolton among developers and investors. We are clearly an attractive place for the property sector. “Bolton needs to build new homes and to develop employment and leisure opportunities for our residents.
PLANS to transform Bolton town centre’s former Post Office building into 48 apartments have been approved by the council. The former Post Office in Deansgate closed in August 2018 after being in use for over 102 years. The residential scheme features 38 one-bedroom and 10 two-bedroom units accommodated in the historic building with car parking behind it. The plans submitted by Mandale Homes Ltd were approved by the council on November 27. In a delivery statement the planning agents, ELG Planning, said the conversion will provide much-needed homes to Bolton town centre, and hopes to complete them in just six months. They said: “The proposed development will result in the positive re-use of a non-designated heritage asset, which is currently vacant and provide homes for the people of Bolton.
AFTERMATH: The land off Medway Drive in Horwich after trees were chopped down RESIDENTS were left in tears after a number of trees were chopped down in Horwich. Workers arrived at land off Medway Drive on Thursday morning to cut trees down, much to neighbours surprise. Some were upset as emotions boiled over following the felling.
The site after the trees were chopped down Susan Cooper, of nearby Melbourne Close, said: It was like a mini forest. I am devastated, there are hedgehogs that go in my garden which lived there.
Bolton Council sold the land where the trees stood in 2013.
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