An ‘eyesore’ building blighting a picturesque neighbourhood in Saddleworth has been demolished to make way for new homes. The former pub and restaurant on Ripponden Road in Grains Bar has stood derelict for almost a decade.

But new pictures confirm the site of the former Bull’s Head is now being prepared for development into three new luxury houses.

Once recorded as a pub, the building later became an Indian restaurant first called Vamasaki, then renamed to Blue Pearl. But since it was officially delisted from serving pints in 2015, it has been left vacant, becoming increasingly dilapidated as the years passed by.

Now nothing but rubble remains of the two-storey pebble-dash building, after demolition works took place last month.

The site, which holds a prominent position at the interse

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