Keepmoat tables 310-home Hindley proposals
A 34-acre site west of Hart Common Golf Course is the subject of plans for hundreds of residences.
Keepmoat Homes has submitted an application to Bolton Council to build 310 properties on the Green Belt site between Westhoughton and Hindley close to the border with Wigan.
The scheme features 310 one- to four-bedroom homes – half being affordable – on what Keepmoat claims meets the criteria for Grey Belt land.
The developer is pushing for the site to be included as a housing allocation in Bolton’s emerging local plan, which is due to be adopted in 2027.
Some development has already taken place nearby. Seddon’s 50-home Hewlett Way scheme is located to the north of Keepmoat’s site and was constructed on a former greyhound track.
Lichfields is advising on planning. Urban Green, Redmore Environmental, E*Scape, and Brooks Ecological are also advising. To learn more, search for reference number 01245/26 on Bolton Council’s planning portal.
I’ve got a letter from Andy Burnham saying he will stop this development… Let’s see what happens
By Anonymous
No more housing the road infrastructure can’t cope with what’s there now.
All the green belt land is going…no where to walk.
Doctors and dentist are full already
Schools and nursarys full already
Will become hmos or asylum seekers homes….not good and will create alot of objections from many people around the surrounding areas.
By Margaret
An absolute joke you can’t move in Westhoughton as it is . Stop building on green belt land . Enough is enough
By Anonymous
Idle observation from not being familiar with this corner of GM so looked it up on Google Maps. The site is between two rail stations maybe 30 mins walk or 10mins on a bike.
By Rich X
The town is choking as it is and where do the deers foxes and pheasants go?
By Iris Dunham
New doctors, schools, roads?
By Anonymous
The farm in question was refused planning for a storage barn to be erected for food and fodder this was refused due to Green belt, How now can this possible to erect 310 homes, Andy Burnham did send a letter let us see if he comes through.
By Anonymous
It’s ridiculous amount of green belt being taken for housing without infrastructure first even tiny pieces of land on council estates are being built on .
By Joyce Clarke