Plans to build a pub and retail store on a former Leigh colliery have been abandoned - but a housing estate could be built in its place. Taylor Wimpey wants to develop on the southern part of what was ...

A HISTORIC colliery site that produced mountains of coal for 150 years is to be transformed into a zero carbon village. More than 650 homes - all made of materials from sustainable sources and packed ...

AMBITIOUS plans to transform the site of the former Bickershaw Colliery into a residential, retail and leisure haven received a massive boost after the Government promised a £19.4million funding ...

The HCA has given the green light for a new spine road to be built to the former Bickershaw Colliery site in Leigh and for reclamation work to begin. The colliery closed in 1992, but now the land, ...

PLANS have been given the go-ahead to install an art memorial and plaque in tribute to 19 miners who died in a tragedy 88 years ago. A mechanical fault at Bickershaw Colliery on October 10, 1932 led ...

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