OBJECTORS who lobbied councillors failed to prevent a homes plan for a 23 acre green fields site being approved.
On Tuesday planning committee members visited the Belvedere Farm site off Carr Common Road, Hindley Green.
Later they gave permission for development of the site which is earmarked for housing in the borough's Unitary Development Plan
Over 850 individual letters were sent to the Council objecting to the application by the Council's policy and resources (land and property) sub committee.
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