Plans to build a pub and retail store on a former Leigh colliery have been abandoned - but a housing estate could be built in its place. Taylor Wimpey wants to develop on the southern part of what was ...

A HISTORIC colliery site that produced mountains of coal for 150 years is to be transformed into a zero carbon village. More than 650 homes - all made of materials from sustainable sources and packed ...

THE next round of talks about big plans for a massive former colliery site at Leigh begin this weekend. Hundreds participated in public consultation events held in July to see and comment on plans ...

PLANS have been given the go-ahead to install an art memorial and plaque in tribute to 19 miners who died in a tragedy 88 years ago. A mechanical fault at Bickershaw Colliery on October 10, 1932 led ...

AMBITIOUS plans to transform the site of the former Bickershaw Colliery into a residential, retail and leisure haven received a massive boost after the Government promised a £19.4million funding ...

A former colliery site in Lancashire is to be regenerated as part of the Homes and Communities Agency’s (HCA) National Coalfields Programme The HCA has given the green light for a new spine road to be ...

New roads being built as part of a £19m redevelopment of a Greater Manchester coal pit will be named after the miners who worked there. Bickershaw Colliery in Leigh closed in 1992 after 115 years. The ...

AMBITIOUS plans to transform the site of the former Bickershaw Colliery into a residential, retail and leisure haven received a massive boost after the Government promised a £19.4million funding ...