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Plans to build a small housing estate on green belt land have been rejected.

Developers PUS Construction had hoped to build seven to nine houses on land on Manchester Road, close to both Ramsbottom and Walmersley.

The grassed field agricultural land site borders the M66 motorway, an office building and haulage yard, the Halfway House café and the Red Hall Hotel.

The application argued that the land should be considered ‘grey belt’. A planning report said that ‘grey belt can be defined as ‘land in the green belt comprising previously developed land and/or any other land that, in either case, does not strongly contribute to any of purposes of the remaining green belt’.

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Some of the tests for designating ‘grey belt’ include to

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