All the key developments planned for Greater Manchester this week

It is a quiet week for developments in Greater Manchester, with very few significant applications being put before councils.

Housing is the main factor this week with three applications have come to the forefront posing different types of homes for Bolton, Rochdale and Salford. The Park Hotel in Bolton may soon become a 27-bedroom shared house to be used as a house of multiple occupation (HMO).

In Rochdale plans for two supported living complexes to help reduce homelessness are set to be decided next week.

Eccles could soon have a new tower block filled with affordable homes, if the Peel Green area plans are approved. This would see 42 new affordable homes created in the area.

Here is a breakdown of each borough’s submitted planning applications this week

The 27-bed shared house plan for pub building

A pub building could be extended to become a shared house with 27-bedrooms.

Plans have been submitted in the last week to convert and extend the Park Hotel premises on Bridgeman Street in Bolton into a house of multiple occupation (HMO). The two-storey detached pub is on the intersection with Slaterfield and Rothwell Street.

Banking hub announces permanent premises in town which lost all its bank branches

A banking hub is set to open at a former estate agent premises in the centre of Horwich.

The former Miller Metcalfe offices on Winter Hey Lane is the subject of a planning application to provide a banking counter service operated by the Post Office, where customers of all major banks and building societies can carry out regular cash transactions.

Earlier this month, a temporary banking hub opened in Horwich, which has a population of around 20,000, after it was announced that the town was losing its final bank