Nursery’s move to allow new homes

Hillside Nursery: plan to build homes

A Sholver nursery could soon be a block of apartments.

Domalo Nurseries Ltd has applied to convert the 10-year-old Hillside Nursery into four homes - and wants permission to build another 30 houses on the Sholver Lane site.

If the application is approved the nursery will move to another local site.

Oldham Council planning committee is due to make a decision on the application towards the end of next month.

“Hillside Nursery has operated successfully from the site for some time,” said a spokesman for Chorlton Planning.

“However the site as a whole is too large for the current operation, leading to it being underused and difficult to maintain.

In February, Ofsted inspectors declared the nursery — which has up to 50 places for children aged six weeks to 11 and also runs an after school club — as “inadequate”. But only six months later it was given a “good” report with standards rising across the board.