Last night Rochdale Council's planning panel approved plans for 214 new homes on the site around Crimble Mill.
A great many of you contacted me about these plans, setting out concerns about the suitability of the site, lack of infrastructure and loss of amenity. Whilst most of us would love to see the Mill itself restored and used positively, the plans for so many houses of the wrong type in the wrong place seemed excessive and so I wrote to the panel with my concerns, objecting the to plan.
I was very disappointed to see that the concerns of local residents and representatives were ignored and the plan was approved.
I'll be writing to the Secretary of State to highlight my very serious concerns about how the application was handled.
