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MORE than 100 flats and 56 town houses set to be built on Deansgate will have a ‘transformational’ effect on Bolton town centre, councillors have heard. Bolton’s planning committee approved the plans with work set to begin next month and the development completed within 18 months to two years. Developers Central Street SPV Limited now have consent to demolish buildings fronting Deansgate and to construct a new development 102 apartments and 56 town houses together with commercial space there. The application also proposes new hard and soft landscaping, a public square, improveme...

COUNCIL bosses have recommitted to regenerating the town centre, with work well underway to transform large areas of the town. Work has begun at numerous developments across the town centre, including plans to build 124 town houses around St George’s Road and Bark Street, and the new YMCA facility in Deansgate. The council has also given an update on when it expects work to begin on the redevelopment of the Crompton Place Shopping Centre. Plans are being put in place by the Crompton Place developers, Bolton Regeneration Ltd, to start demolition of the shopping centre towards the end o...

Dan Whelan The build-to-rent developer’s 158-home Croal Valley project is earmarked for approval by the council’s planning committee. Situated on a key site bordered by the River Croal and part of Bolton Council’s £1.5bn regeneration of the town centre, the £25m project is to feature a mix of apartments and townhouses.   The project designed by architect Levitt Bernstein would be built on a largely vacant 2.7-acre plot off Central Street and Deansgate, opposite the former Beales/Whittakers department store.  Under the proposals, several buildings fronting Deansgate would be demol...

PROPOSALS for a huge housing and commercial development in the town centre have been expanded. The plans look to completely redevelop the area around the River Croal, Ridgeway Gates and Brook Street to the East, Deansgate and Central Street. The original proposals by the developers, Placefirst, were to build a six-storey block with 145 homes and commercial space in this area, while creating a new public square. Now they have expanded these plans to include 158 homes, ranging in size from studio apartments to three-bedroom townhouses, as well as expanding on the amount of commercial sp...

"The demolition of the buildings fronting Deansgate will lead to less than substantial harm to the significance of the Deansgate Conservation Area and this harm is considered to be outweighed to the benefits of the scheme to regeneration, to housing supply, to an increased town centre population and by the other benefits of the scheme described within this report." The new documents submitted with the revised plans showed that the applicants met with representatives of the Bolton Methodist Mission, including Reverend Paul Martin, and the Victoria Hall. This was due to the close proximit...