‘Without the pub the village is just a collection of houses without a beating heart’

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A former village pub described as ‘vital to the wellbeing of a community’ is to be converted into flats.

The grade II Lord Raglan pub, in the village of Nangreaves on the outskirts of Bury , was the subject of a change of use application heard before Bury’s planning committee this week.

Applicants Windlehurst Estates put forward the application for the pub, known to local as ‘The Rag’, at the northern end of the former cotton mill complex and associated factory village of Mount Pleasant.

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It is accessed off a cobbled road which rises up hill towards Harden Moor. Windlehurst have now gained approval to convert the pub, which closed in 2018, into five, two-bedroom apartments.

Villager Jim Metcalfe, who before he ret