Peel's (Peel Investments (North) Ltd) latest application to bulldoze the greenbelt in order to build 165 new homes in Worsley has been rejected at a planning meeting held this morning and chaired by Councillor Ray Mashiter .
Council Officials, Councillors and members of the Public heard, in what seemed to be more of an appeal, why the application should be allowed from Peel's team.
Local Councillors Karen and Robin Garrido both spoke strongly in opposition of the application, whilst retired school teacher Mrs Jean Barnes gave an impassioned speech calling for a dismissal of the application which gained huge applause from the room, as too did a speech from another gentleman who challenged the validity of Peel's assertions in their application.
Peel are set to square off against Salford Council and local members of the Public as well as local campaign group RAID (Residents Against Inappropriate Development) this coming October 3rd, after it won an appeal at high court for another public enquiry into previous refusals for a development of 600 homes in the same area.
As reported twice already, the application was refused previously by both the council and again in 2015 by the then secretary of state for communities and local government, Mr Eric Pickles MP, who said that it should not be allowed to go ahead.
When you consider the importance of the ever dwindling green spaces within Salford we think Salford Council planners got this decision right.
We will keep you up to date with this as it rolls on.
For further info see our previous articles here
Thanks to Bob Goodall and Noel Gaskell for the photo and updates.
Edited by KARL
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