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A council is facing calls to scrap plans to release a section of green belt land sat between two Greater Manchester boroughs for development.

A site between the villages of Astley, in Wigan borough, and Boothstown, in Salford , is included as part of Wigan council’s draft local plan.

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The council’s report states that the area, known as Bridgewater West, is ‘allocated for a high quality business park-led mixed-use development, together with homes and leisure and visitor attractions.’

But people living in Boothstown said any building on the site would put more pressure on Salford’s roads and services .

Tony Jeffreys, 85, lives on a street next

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