Welcome to the Darcy Lever Community website

The aim of this website is to publicise these plans and build up support against the proposed housing development on radcliffe road in Darcy Lever, Bolton.

News Update and Planning Committee Meeting details (01/03/2010)...

As regards the plans for the new estate on Radcliffe Road, further to the meeting on the 9th Februray at Darcy Lever Cricket Club, another meeting was held on Monday 22nd February at Leverhulme Park with a small group of residents, and all other parties involved within this application.

Again the residents questioned the principle of development on this site and pressed to make changes to make the site more tolerable should we have to accept it. Whilst the response we got was somewhat positive in certain areas, we are still working on getting our objections acted upon.

This application is planning to be heard by planning committee meeting on 2PM next Thurday 4th March at the Town Hall and as such Alex will be making a statement on behalf of the residents objecting to this development. There will also be a site visit at 10:15AM on the same day, so if anyone fancies a chance at trying to persuade the councillors to rule in our favour, the site visit is the time to do it.

Other than that we thank you all for your support in the last few months, and hope that our efforts will come to some good.

Public meeting with our local councillor Sean Hornby on Monday 8th February at 6:30PM at the Darcy Lever Cricket club...

Click here for more details

News Update: Objection Section updated (28/12/2009)...

Click here to view the updated Objection Section. Please remember all formal objections must be submitted to the bolton planning website before the 6th January 2010 - Please go to the objection section for more information.

News Update: Planning Application Submitted (15/12/2009)...

The planning application for the proposed development has now been submitted.

You can view the submitted details in the downloads section.

More detailed information can be viewed on the bolton planning website.

Darcy Lever Community Forum - Have your say...

We have integrated a forum into the website, so people can have their say regarding the Proposed Housing Development on Radcliffe Road. To post your views, you will first need to register and activate your account.

Register yourself to the forum so when there are any developments, meetings, petitions or objections letters to be signed, we can drop you an email to let you know.

The story so far...

13th October 2009
A letter was sent to a handful of residents re plans for a new site development for affordable housing on a piece of land off Radcliffe Road, Darcy Lever. The letter told of a meeting to show plans of the development to be held on the car park of Grosvenor Gardens on 20th October.
(Download a copy of the letter)

20th October 2009
A meeting was held on the car park of Grovesnor Gardens showing the initial plans for the site, attended by Bolton Council, the housing association Great Places, and the site architects OMI.

28th October 2009
A letter was sent by local councillor Sean Hornby to local residents organising a meeting to be held at the Farmers Arms pub on the 3rd November, to again show plans of the development.
(Download a copy of the letter)

3rd November 2009
A meeting was held at the Farmers Arms pub again showing the plans for the development and again attended by Bolton Council, the housing association Great Places, and the site architects OMI and 3 local councillors.

There were many objections to these plans raised by the local residents who attended.

5th November 2009
A letter was again sent to local residents by councillor Sean Hornby asking residents to attend a meeting to be held on Redwood Close on 10th November to discuss the highway issues that had been raised at the meeting on the 3rd November.
(Download a copy of the letter)

10th November
A meeting was held on Redwood Close and attended by 2 local councillors and a member from Bolton’s highways team. Again local residents raised strong objections to this development.