www.champnews.com FORMBY 23 March 2016 Redgate Rovers victorious! Pub is hub of community LANDOWNER’S ANGER OVER PLANNING SNUB A FORMBY landowner whose huge sports development project was controversially snubbed in the Local Plan says he has been left ‘in a...
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www.champnews.com FORMBY 23 March 2016 Redgate Rovers victorious! Pub is hub of community LANDOWNER’S ANGER OVER PLANNING SNUB A FORMBY landowner whose huge sports development project was controversially snubbed in the Local Plan says he has been left ‘in a state of disbelief.’ Part of land to the south of Formby Industrial Estate, which is owned by businessman and popu- lar community figure Hugh Mcauley, can not be built on as part of the Local Plan, the Planning Inspectorate has said. Originally eyed up as a potential development site for a huge sports and leisure facility, the land off Altcar Road will now be saved from the bull- dozers. There had been talk of allowing former Formby FC owner Hugh Mcauley to transform the land into a major sports facility for youngsters in Merseyside, as well as allowing a supermarket to develop on part of the unused land – the details of which were earmarked in the Sefton Local Plan. However the land will now be exempt from devel- opment according t
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