RESIDENTS are angry at plans to build a restaurant on the main route into Westhoughton.

Developers want to turn an overgrown patch of wasteland next to Chequerbent roundabout into a two-storey restaurant specialising in Asian cuisine.

But homeowners say it would bring traffic and late-night noise to the residential area as well as creating parking chaos.

Marjorie Bullough, aged 75, who lives at the top of Park Road, said: "Nobody round here wants to see this thing built. We're a quiet community and this isn't the right sort of thing for this area."

Rob Driscoll, a 29-year-old IT engineer, who lives at the top of Park Road, added: "We'll lose our views up to the moors over Horwich if they build it two storeys high."

The 90-seat restaurant would sit on a patch of land at the front of houses on the A6 Manchester Road, close to the junction with Park Road.

The land previously belonged to the Highways Agency who sold it to the developers.

A resident of Manchester Road, who asked not to be named, added: "It will be an eyesore if they put it here.

"The first thing people see when they come into Westhoughton will be this building."

Jeffrey Goodchild, who is acting as agent for Oldham-based M A Developments, said: "We already have outline planning permission for a restaurant in principle.

"But we want to make sure it fits in with the surroundings and isn't garish in comparison to nearby buildings. It will be a nice development and architecturally pleasing."