A PROPERTY company was planning to invest £10 million in a massive development in the Rossendale Valley.

The Wolverhampton-based Wightwick Properties hoped to build 230 houses, shops and leisure clubs on a 20-acre site in Bacup.

Wightwick had already received outline planning permission for the housing on the site near Tong Lane and Fairview Road.

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