BOLTON Town Centre Company has received a ticking off over its plans to erect a giant snow slide in Victoria Square.

Council leader Bob Howarth said the company should have informed them after changing its plans to create an ice rink in the town centre, for which it had already been granted permission.

The snow slide will open on Friday, November 30, but a couple of weeks ago was met with an icy reception by planning chiefs who only found out it was no longer going to be an ice rink when they read it in the BEN.

But plans to erect a six-metre high "snow" tobogganing slope did not need planning permission because it is only a temporary construction.

Cllr Howarth said: "They will in future have to come to us for approval for anything of a significant nature.

"There has since been a discussion and it was agreed that they had not raised the money to put the ice rink there and this is the alternative."

The snow slide, costing thousands of pounds from Birmingham-based leisure company, Alpine Attractions, is expected to be a big hit with festive shoppers who will pay £2 for three slides down the synthetic snow tube on special rubber rings.