200 new homes set to get the go-ahead

NEARLY 200 new homes are set to transform parts of Oldham.

Four separate planning applications have been submitted for developments in Oldham town centre, Failsworth and Fitton Hill.

Housing chiefs have drawn up the latest plans for a much-delayed scheme of 93 two to five-bedroom homes in St Marys.

Salford-based housing association Contour Housing, which manages a number of estates for Oldham Council, is proposing houses of mixed tenure on the site bounded by St Mary’s Way, Egerton Street, Horsedge Street and Scoltock Way. The regeneration of the land has been on the agenda for a number of years.

A total of 85 houses on a 1.55 hectare site in Rosary Road and 24 on land off Greenhurst Crescent is proposed for Fitton Hill.

Keepmoat Homes plans to build two, three and four-bedroom houses, six of which will be rented out by a social landlord.

It is recommended that the Rosary Road scheme is built before the Greenhurst Crescent development.

The area had previously been occupied by flats, which had been cleared as part of the axed Housing Market Renewal initiative.

Failsworth could see 17 new homes built on a parcel of land off Hale Lane and Hughes Close.

The outline application and other planning bids go before Oldham Council Planning Committee tonight.