These are the major planning applications submitted in Greater Manchester this week.

Tameside

A school could get a new artificial pitch built

Laurus Ryecroft High School want to build a 3G artificial grass pitch for a variety of sports.

Fencing, a toilet block, two lane cricket nets and a storage building are also part of the proposals for the Lumb Lane site in Droylsden. If plans are approved, the new AGP would be built on the grass pitches already in place at the school.

Manchester 

Plan to demolish the Hotspur Press building and replace with student housing is tabled

The iconic former industrial complex Hotspur Press could soon be transformed into student accommodation, if plans are approved.

According to plans, the Oxford Road corridor in Manchester would become home to a new 36-storey building which would house 578 student bedrooms.

Applicants, Manner, have also included new amenity space and a public square in their proposals.

Salford

Nine-storey block looks set for approval – in face of objections

Plans for a nine-storey building including a new community centre and 35 apartments go before Salford’s planning committee on Thursday (December 21).

Approval of the scheme at the former St Mary’s Centre on St Mary’s Road, Eccles, looks likely after the housing group ForHousing bought the land from the city council two months ago. But there are objections to the plan, which would see the community centre occupy the ground floor of the building with the apartments above.

Decision on £250m plan for 485 homes imminent

A huge housing scheme which could see the last remaining family on a Salford street forced out of their home looks set for approval by city councillors next week.

Demonique Wilson, his wife Thabo, own the only occupied home on Holcombe Close, Pendleton where they live with their five children.  The property stands in the way of a £250million regeneration scheme taking shape in the area since 2009.

Lovell, SP+ and Together Housing’s plan to build 485 homes on the 22-acre development which will include 70 per cent of homes for sale on the open market and 30pc affordable homes.

Historic church set for conversion into apartments and commercial use

Plans to convert a historic church into a complex of flats, a community centre and commercial use are under consultation with Salford planners.

The submission is for the Grade II-listed Chapel Street and Hope United Reformed Church which is more than 200 years old. Applicant Chapel Street Community Centre wants to create a ‘mixed-use’ development comprising 15 apartments, flexible commercial and business service use on the ground floor, community use with an upward extension and storage in the basement.

Stockport

Plans for new apartments in historic Stockport town centre building revealed

A developer has shared its plans to create new apartments in a historic building in Stockport town centre. 

The Britannia Group, which bought the former Stockport Probation Centre at 19 – 37 High Street in the summer, is proposing to create 45 new homes while maintaining the character and height of the original building. The site was built in 1900 and was used by wholesale grocers C J Preston & Sons before it became the probation office in 1983.

Controversial plan to build homes on historic golf course delayed

A decision on the future of a historic golf club in Stockport has been delayed after a disagreement over whether it is surplus to requirements. 

Hollins Strategic Land is seeking permission to build 278 houses on Gatley Golf Club, which it claims is “not an economically viable operation”. Sport England and England Golf have challenged the claim. 

A vote to defer the decision until more information can be provided on the issue was passed by the planning committee, meaning the application will return to be decided in future.

Trafford

Former lap dancing club could become complex of seven apartments

A former lap dancing club in the centre of Altrincham could be demolished and converted into a complex of seven apartments, if plans are approved.

The ‘Totties’ club has been the source of numerous complaints, highlighted by the applicant’s submission to Trafford council saying: “Between 1968 and 2021, the use of the upper floor of the application site as a night club has been an on-going source of public concern and proposals to redevelop the site in manner that ceases that use, could be a significant benefit to public amenity.”