Developers in bid to allay group’s concerns

OLDHAM COUNCIL PLANNING COMMITTEE
DEVELOPERS of a new residential development in Hathershaw have promised to work with Oldham Indian Association to calm fears for its community centre.

Association president Mrs Trupti Patel told councillors that properties running right up to the centre’s boundaries would result in an invasion of privacy.

She called for a three metre landscaping strip to be left around the building to shield it from the development of 121 houses built on land bounded by Schofield Street, Ashton Road and Copsterhill Road, known as the Borough Triangle.

Jane Aspinall, speaking on behalf of developers Countryside Properties, said it wasn’t possible to do that without replanning and resubmitting the scheme, which would take time and miss a deadline for grants which were being used to fund it.

But she did promise extra planting to give greater privacy to people using the community centre.

She added: “We were never intending to thwart anything the Indian Association intended to do.”

The scheme, part of the Hathershaw and Fitton Hill masterplan, was approved.