How the 7-year saga of Bolton s doomed half-built luxury mansions unfolded CONTROVERSY over the five mansions built at Grundy Fold Farm first surfaced in 2016, but the saga began two years earlier when planning permission was granted. In August 2014, Sparkle Developments got planning permission to build the luxury homes. After receiving complaints in October 2016, the council found that the five houses were not being built in accordance with the planning permission that was granted.
How the site looked originally On closer inspection, they found that the houses were a different design, siting and size than what was approved. The footprint and total floor area were larger and the height of three houses were higher than permitted.
Five multi-million pound luxury mansions ordered to be torn down in planning row
Owners at Grundy Fold Farm lose appeal an planning inquiry
The homes built at Grundy Fold Farm in Bolton
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Five partially-built mansions have been ordered to be torn down after a planning inspector dismissed appeals from the house owners.
Five luxury mansions ordered to be demolished after planning row
Developers now have 12 months to tear down the partially-built structures
The homes built at Grundy Fold Farm in Bolton (Image: LDR)
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Five million-pound mansions must now be demolished after a planning inspector found they were up to a third bigger and in different locations than allowed.
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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.