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PROPOSALS for up to 95 homes in Green Belt moorland are to be debated by councillors. Blackburn with Darwen Council s Planning Committee is recommended to approve the scheme on Waterside Park near Eccleshill Village despite the presence of bats, barn owls, otters and common toads on the 12-acre site. The scheme proposed by furniture firm GFW Ltd would involve the demolition of their current distribution centre and the nearby Lower Grimshaw Farm. GFW would relocate elsewhere. Planning officers recommend the meeting on Thursday attach 30 conditions to any approval including protecting the rare species. They say that because the site, off Johnson Road, is already industrially developed the new housing estate can go ahead despite being in the protected Green Belt.