Developer plans high quality apartment block in town centre
Described as ‘attractive’ and ‘well-designed’ the proposal would bring 23 new homes to Heywood.
View of proposed apartment building along Earl Street, Heywood. (Image: Tang and Associates.)
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A developer has lodged plans for a ‘high quality’ apartment block in Heywood town centre.
The bungalow on Lake Side
Planning permission is being sought to demolish a dilapidated bungalow overlooking Hollingworth Lake and replace it with two detached houses.
Construction work began on 15 Lake Side in 1998, but it has stood unfinished for years whilst being the subject of lengthy legal disputes.
The bungalow has been deemed to be ‘a blight on this attractive area of the borough’ by the council, which authorised a Compulsory Purchase Order (CPO) on the house in 2018.
As previously reported by the Local Democracy Reporting Service, 15 Lake Side had been intended to be the dream retirement home for Dr Stephen Watkins and his wife Elizabeth. They had their hearts set on a new-build bungalow on the shores of Hollingworth Lake – complete with its own library for the hundreds of books Dr Watkins had collected over the years.
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A developer has submitted plans for a ‘high quality’ apartment block in Heywood town centre.
The four-storey building would be built on vacant brownfield land between Earl Street, Taylor Street and Bethel Street, next to Trinity Methodist Church.
Described as ‘attractive’ and ‘well-designed’ the proposal would bring 23 new homes to the area – including 15 one-bedroom and eight two-bed apartments.
However, none of the flats would be affordable, as the developer Agron Elezi argues it would not be financially viable.
Mr Elezi has previously been at the centre of controversy in connection with two homes he built on vacant land in Halewood, Merseyside.
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