Hulme hits out at housing plan

RESIDENTS have been invited to air their views about controversial plans to build nine houses on the site of the former Delph Independent Chapel.

A meeting will be held at Delph Band Club on Thursday, October 30, at 7.45pm, to discuss the proposal, which has already been recommended for refusal by the Saddleworth Parish Council Planning Committee.

Parish Councillor Ken Hulme, of Delph, has opposed the application. But he says something should be done to save the fabric of the chapel and to restore the graveyard.

He said: “The proposed development and its landscaping would dramatically change the nature of the graveyard. There would be reduced access to the burial ground at the far end of the graveyard.

“The loss of many mature trees envisaged by the proposal is simply unacceptable in a conservation area. And the village would also lose a significant number of carparking spaces in Delph Lane and Hill End Road.”