PLANS to build plush new homes on the site of a former top Pendle restaurant, are set to be given the all-clear by Pendle councillors this week.

Skipton Properties have applied to build 11 four and five-bedroom detached houses on two acres of land at The Hide Restaurant at Ball Grove, Colne.

After several planning applications were rejected, Pendle gave permission for building last year, subject to landscaping, external appearance and design matters being agreed.

The application to the council's Colne Committee deals with these issues and officers are recommending approval.

But the developer will still have to satisfy environmental health officers that land on the the former leather tannery site is free of contamination and will have to produce an investigation report.

The Hide restaurant was one of Pendle's top eating houses in the late '80s and early '90s, but later closed and fell into disrepair.

The report to councillors says the Hide is now vacant and boarded up and had been systematically ransacked and vandalised.