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A former pub in Oldham could be demolished by the creators of Colin the Caterpillar. Park Cakes Bakery, which produces the bug-shaped sweet treat for M&S, plans to bulldoze the former Honeywell Arms in Medlock Vale.

The two-storey boozer on 491 Ashton Road closed down in September 2024 and has stood vacant and boarded-up for more than a year. Before that, the building was a long-standing business with a private flat for the pub landlords on the first floor and a ‘modest’ car park to the rear of the property.

It’s surrounded on all sides by a number of terraced homes and businesses.

Now the bakery plans to level the site, which sits directly opposite the Park Cakes Bakery warehouse off Ashton Road, at the beginning of Beehive St.

The planning application was validated b

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