GYPSY site objectors successfully bombarded planners with a 1,150 name petition.

Plans for a mobile home, stables and hardstanding alongside the East Lancashire Road at Glazebury - which locals fear could be the first step to a gypsy encampment - were turned down by Warrington planners because of blast zone, highway access dangers and Green Belt reasons.

The site is a short distance from the Nobels Explosives works and near a plot which next week comes under the planning spotlight again.

Worried Landside people have Wigan Council's backing against plans to change a site zoned as a stables and grazing area to a gypsy caravan site for single family accommodation.

And Hope Carr Cllr Brian Jarvis is hopeful this application will also be refused.

Cllr Jarvis said:"Wigan Council has vigorously opposed these plans for land which now comes within the Warrington area.

"Almost the whole of Landside has been up in arms about these proposals and Glazebury people have been very concerned. Let's hope Warrington planners treat this latest application in the same manner as the other.

"After all the same reasons for refusal would seem to apply and the 1,150 objections are also relevant."

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