FOUR pubs could be replaced by houses and apartments.
Last orders could be called at Paddy's Bar on the Tyldesley-Atherton border if a plan to demolish the former mill owner's home and build houses on the site is approved by planners.
Developers have submitted an outline proposal to Wigan Council to build eight homes.
Work is already underway on the site of the former Railway pub at the junction of Leigh Road and Lovers Lane at Howe Bridge.
The Bay Horse pub, in Bolton Old Road, Atherton, has been closed for conversion into apartments and a Cheshire company plans to build 11 homes and eight apartments after demolishing the Railway Hotel, at Hindley Green.
Police have launched an investigation after the Leigh Road pub, closed since the late 1990s and usually called The Rubber, was damaged as fire swept through the ground floor on Tuesday.
Police have launched an investigation after a fire swept through the ground floor of the pub early on Tuesday morning.
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