Brace yourselves sisters – the habit is coming to Manchester!
19.04.2022 - 17:13 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
A huge new warehouse is to be built at an industrial estate despite the ‘inescapable’ impact it will have on the surrounding green belt. Standing at 15m tall and covering nearly 90,000 square foot the building will replace two smaller units at Birch Business Park, near Heywood.
It will be around double the size of the existing buildings with an increase in height of approximately eight metres. The replacement warehouse will be closer to the western boundary of the estate as a result of the increase in size - and also more visible, particularly from the south.
Rochdale council’s planning committee narrowly voted to approve the scheme - part of an ongoing redevelopment of the park - when it met on Thursday night. Despite representing ‘inappropriate development in the green belt’, officers had recommended granting permission on the grounds the economic benefits amounted to ‘very special circumstances’.
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A report to members accepted it was ‘inescapable’ that a much larger building would result in a ‘greater impact on the openness of the green belt’. But it said the development would help Restore Ltd ‘consolidate’ its operation - the firm having recently taken a 20-year lease on a neighbouring unit - and contribute to the ‘clear need for additional employment and industrial space within the borough’.
Based close to Heywood Distribution Park, the site sits within the ‘Northern Gateway’ - a major employment zone within Greater Manchester’s ‘Places for Everyone’ development plan. Bill Ullathorne, of applicant Yeargate Ltd, told the committee the scheme would complete the ‘modernisation’ of the business park and make it
Brace yourselves sisters – the habit is coming to Manchester!
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Peak District which is used by celebrities. The 39-year-old mum-of-three, who has not yet been named, is reported to have been taking part in a session with Breatheolution in Buxworth in the Peak District, reports the Manchester Evening News. She was pulled from the water and given CPR on Monday, April 25 by paramedics who were called around 4.
Coleen Rooney, Stephen Graham and other celebrities. The 39-year-old, who has not been named, was pulled from the water at Breatheolution in Buxworth, Derbyshire on Monday. The mum, from Manchester, had been acclimatising to the cold water in the River Goyt during a two-hour session alongside friends, according to reports.
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