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A huge town centre regeneration and a 24/7 supermarket make up some of the more significant planning notices this week. Moston , in north Manchester, has been earmarked for a huge facelift under a project fronted by Manchester council. Recently the local authority unveiled its final plans to rejuvenate the area with a new public square, green spaces, and alley-gates to tackle anti-social behaviour and fly-tipping. To see planning applications; traffic and road diversions and layout changes; and more, visit the Public Notices Portal HERE The £90m project also includes dozens of homes in addition to the town centre overhaul. Over in Bury , a Morrisons petrol station is making waves with plans to offer a 24/7 service to customers. The Whitefield-based site currently only operates between 6am and midnight. Here is a breakdown of each borough’s recently submitted public notices Former GP surgery building at centre of HMO plans A former NHS surgery is at the centre of plans to become a house of multiple occupation for up to six people. The Market Surgery building on Chorley New Road, Horwich, is currently vacant after GP services transferred to a new health centre in the town. A planning application lodged with Bolton council reveals details of the plans to transform the two-storey end corner terraced property. The applicant’s name is not published in the documents with the plans submitted in the name of Salford based HAD & Co. Morrisons store could open 24 hours a day as bid lodged A petrol station and associated Morrisons shop are seeking permission to open 24-hours a day. Whitefield Garage on Bury New Road is around 160 metres north of the town centre. After a previous redevelopment of the site, there is currently a four pump filling station and a Morrisons outlet at the site. A condition of the previous development is that all operations at the site should not be open to customers outside the times of 6am to midnight. Plans lodged with Bury council in the past week requested dropping that condition to allow round the clock opening. Family-run business which has served a town for 150 years plan changes to ‘thrive for generations’ A family funeral business is set to mark a century-and-a-half of trading by expanding and refurbishing its premises. Silletts has been operating in Radcliffe as a funeral director since 1875 and is based on Spring Lane. Elijah Halliwell started the business and later his daughter married Josiah Sillett and in 1912 the name was changed as Josiah took over the business. The planning application seeks permission to add more chapels of rest to keep pace with an expanding population, add more toilets, create more storage and build a dedicated workshop, acoustically separated from the chapels. Additional elements in the plans include to ‘create a new sense of arrival’, create more car parking and to generally ‘update the external look and feel from the 1970s aesthetic’. Massive makeover set for north Manchester suburb as council eyes new square and more than 100 new homes Tens of millions will be spent improving a north Manchester suburb’s ‘focal point’ to become ‘somewhere people can take pride in’. This week (October 27), Manchester council unveiled its final plans to rejuvenate Moston with a new public square, green spaces, and alley-gates to tackle anti-social behaviour and fly-tipping. The £90m project could also see more than 100 homes constructed in and around the neighbourhood’s Moston Lane heartland. Money is being spent across Manchester’s suburban centres, including Gorton and Withington , leader Bev Craig explained. Locals slam ‘wholly inappropriate’ plans for ‘peaceful’ Greater Manchester village A former hotel and wedding venue in a ‘peaceful’ village in Saddleworth may soon become home to a new HMO. Plans submitted for Clough Manor on Rochdale Road, Denshaw, would see a wing of the former inn transformed into a five-bed house in multiple occupation if approved by Oldham council. Developer Sophie Hartwell of Saddleworth Holdings Ltd intends to convert one of the hotel bedrooms into a shared kitchen and dining space. The five remaining bedrooms in the wing of the hotel would become part of one large shared housing unit, making use of existing en-suites, living areas and built-in kitchenettes. Former pub could be demolished by Colin the Caterpillar creators A former pub in Oldham could be demolished by the creators of Colin the Caterpillar. Park Cakes Bakery, which produces the bug-shaped sweet treat for M&S, plans to bulldoze the former Honeywell Arms in Medlock Vale. The two-storey boozer on 491 Ashton Road closed down in September 2024 and has stood vacant and boarded-up for more than a year. Before that, the building was a long-standing business with a private flat for the pub landlords on the first floor and a ‘modest’ car park to the rear of the property. Now the bakery plans to level the site, which sits directly opposite the Park Cakes Bakery warehouse off Ashton Road, at the beginning of Beehive St. Salford’s prize-winning Centenary Building demolished in plan for new homes Salford’s prize-winning Centenary Building has been demolished. Partners in the £2.5bn Salford Crescent regeneration project confirmed demolition work at the site has finished after starting earlier this year. A planning application has been submitted by developer ECF to build 263 homes on the land, located off Adelphi Street and not far from Chapel Street. The Centenary Building won the Royal Institute of British Architects Stirling Prize in 1996, and was regarded as ‘the UK’s best new building’ at the time. But it had been left sitting empty and unused for years before being knocked down. New Lidl would be ‘disastrous’ for Stockport neighbourhood, councillor claims Plans for a new Lidl in Stockport would be ‘disastrous’ for the roads in the area, a local councillor has claimed. The supermarket is aiming to set up a site at hulme > Cheadle Heath Works on Stockport Road. Permission was refused by councillors in January, but in summer Lidl made an appeal to the Planning Inspector over the decision. David Meller, a councillor for Cheadle East and Cheadle Hulme North, said there he is still concerned about the site potentially becoming a supermarket. Lidl’s planning application for the proposed new supermarket was due to be decided in December at a council meeting, but the decision was pushed back before the meeting started. Greek Street, Stockport – Road Closure Until Spring 2026, Greek Street roundabout in Stockport will be closed for railway bridge replacement works. Works expected to last until Wednesday, April 1. Date given for when Greater Manchester town hall revamp will be complete The rejuvenation of Ashton Town Hall from rack and ruin will be complete by 2030, say council bosses. Earlier this year Tameside council leader Eleanor Wills made a bold promise to transform the Grade-II listed building by the end of the decade. Now her executive cabinet has doubled down on that promise with a new feasibility study to inform the next stage of works. This comes following essential repairs to the façade and parapet and improvements to the main steps, the latest meeting of town hall chiefs was told. A revitalised council chamber and function room; community spaces; commercial space for a wine bar, coffee shop, and restaurant; office plots; and a possible extension are all on the cards for the restoration. Mottram-in-Longdendale/Hollingworth, Tameside Planned road layout changes will take place on Roe Cross Road & A57 Mottram Moor. The preliminary works are part of a wider project to build two new link roads between Manchester and Sheffield. Works expected to last until January 31, 2028. Charity submits new plan after police deem homeless hostel plan ‘acceptable’ A charity’s bid to convert a vacant Wigan pub into temporary accommodation for people transitioning out of homelessness has resubmitted plans after proposals were rejected under police advice four months ago. The Brick wants to change the use of the former Queens Arms on Harrison Street into a facility for up to 14 people leaving rough sleeping with ‘medium support needs’ and who are aiming to secure permanent housing. Wigan’s planning committee turned down the application four months ago following advice from Greater Manchester Police because a shortage of bathroom facilities in the plan would ‘likely cause conflict’. Now planning consultant Rutterstone has tabled a new plan on behalf of The Brick, and seeks to address concerns raised by GMP about an ‘unacceptable level of over-occupation’ in a bedroom on the first floor served by only a single en-suite and shower facility.
