All the key developments submitted in the Greater Manchester regional this week

Conversion of vacant buildings into housing is a common theme among the Greater Manchester boroughs this week.

A martial arts centre in Bolton, a pub in Rochdale and a 1970s detached home in Trafford are all targeted for housing in separate applications. The largest of the three is in Farnworth, where 36 affordable homes could replace the Gouldings Martial Arts UK Centre of Excellence - which has now moved location.

The old Plough Inn located in Rochdale could be transformed into six new apartments for young professionals and one detached home in Urmston may soon be demolished and replaced with six townhouses.

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

Former martial arts centre set to be demolished to make way for three-storey block of 36 ‘affordable’ flats

A three-storey block of 36 ‘affordable’ flats could be built at the site of a former martial arts centre.

Developer Great Places has applied to build the block of one and two-bed flats at the former Gouldings Martial Arts UK Centre of Excellence on St Germain Street in Farnworth.

Gouldings Martial Arts has now relocated to nearby King Street.

The site is almost directly opposite to Queensbridge Primary School and Nursery.

Urgent repairs needed at Bury Art Museum as artwork risks being damaged by water from leaking roof

Urgent repairs are needed at Bury Art Museum with paintings and other works at risk of being damaged by water passing through the leaky roof.

An application for listed building consent lodged in the past few days states ‘water ingress poses a risk to the artwork housed inside the museum’ and that primary façades now have visible damage from water. The application says the historic significance of the entire