A decision is due on a plan for two four-bedroom homes on a patch of open land in Breightmet. The applicant, Zulfiquar Ali, applied for outline permission for the site off Tarbet Drive last year. The plan is for two four-bedroom homes on a patch of open land to be accessed by two driveways, one to the west of the site, one to the south of the site.
The one to the west of the site is already in use as an access to an electricity sub-station. It is up for consideration by the planning committee when it meets at the town hall today amid objections from Adele Warren and Sean Fielding, councillors for Breightmet Ward, as well as more than a dozen residents in the area of Tarbet Drive. (Image: Cestria Partnership) In a post on social media this week Cllr Fielding said: "I do not believe that the access arrangements for the homes on this site are suitable, nor that there will ever be an acceptable configuration for the homes on this site given it is enclosed on all sides by residential properties, most of which look onto the site from their rear windows.
" The other objections are also about the access arrangements as well as other issues like a loss of open land, the pressure on parking and the pressure on traffic. ALSO READ: Farnworth: Approval for 10-home terrace on Lorne Street . A report for consideration by the planning committee recommends the approval of the application saying its impact is acceptable or addressable by conditions.
The report said: "The provision of two houses.