Plans for a major expansion to one of Bolton’s biggest business parks have been updated ahead of work starting.

The proposal will see five new units built on Waters Meeting Business Park off Britannia Way, developed by Lancashire-based property company B&E Boys.

The scheme was granted approval as long as certain conditions were met some years ago and as of this month the developers have applied to alter the plans slightly by changing the elevation and number of windows on one of the units.

A statement said: “B&E Boys is a long established, family-owned property company based in Rossendale.

“It deals with investment, development and construction and specialises in providing employment space for local businesses across the North West.

The Bolton News: The plans were put before Bolton Council The plans were put before Bolton Council (Image: Corstorphine & Wright)

“The company has acquired land at Waters Meeting over a number of years and has developed/refurbished the estate to a great extent, with only a few plots remaining vacant.

“Units 40 to 44, which gained planning permission in November 2020 following a planning appeal, are currently under construction on the site immediately west of the application site.”

The original planning application had been refused in 2019 over concerns that the new units would stand in the way of a previously agreed road between Crompton Way and Britannia Way.

But after an appeal the following year, government planning inspectors decided to give the scheme the green light, prompting an updated planning application entered in 2021.

The developers’ statement that year said: “The whole plateau has been cleared and the land readied for development following the natural contours of the site.

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“To the north is a large residential development with an established landscaped buffer and close boarded fence along its southern boundary which serves to separate it from the employment site to the south.”

With permission now having been granted, the most recent variation was put before the council on Tuesday, May 23.

It will be open for neighbourhood consultations until Friday, June 23 which will allow people on nearby Cotton Meadows, Spinning Grove, Bleak Street, Lansdowne Road and Britannia Way to have their say.

The council will then decide whether or not to approve the variation at a later date.