'I'm powerless...' desperate mum-of-three in turmoil amid fears her house could be bulldozed

A mother-of-three fears she could be 'forced out' of her home if a new 63-home development in Salford gets the green light.

Plans have been submitted to the city council's planners which would involve demolishing two semi-detached homes and felling a number of trees.

The 4.5-acre site would be built where the Pendlebury Miners Welfare Club once stood, on land off Temple Drive on the edge of the St Augustine’s Conservation area in Swinton.

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As well as bulldozing two homes on Goodwood Drive, several trees on a green parcel of land in front of existing houses will be felled to widen the road if plans are approved.

One of the two properties under threat of being demolished in Goodwood Drive is occupied by ForHousing tenant Hayley Maxwell, 34, who has children aged 16, 14 and 10.

“I am against this plan, but I don’t own the house so, unless I excercise a right to buy I’m powerless to prevent it,” she said. “It’s very worrying.”

However, the owners of the nextdoor property who do not wish to be named, said they were taking legal advice following an offer from the developers to buy their house.

Meanwhile, other residents of Goodwood Drive and Temple Drive are against the scheme after plans were posted on the Salford city council planning portal last week.

Grant Birch, 30, has launched a Whatsapp group for residents. He told the Local Democracy Reporting Service (LDRS): “There a lot of opposition to this already. We look out onto lovely trees and a green and all that will be destroyed if this goes ahead.

Carl Barlow, 50, says his home would be overlooked by the properties.

“I’ve lived here for 43 years, having bought my parents’