TOWN hall lawyers are today advising Bolton council to lift part of the covenant which prompted the bitter Birtenshaw land battle.
A report to be discussed in secret session at the Management and Finance committee will recommend councillors take steps to allow a bungalow to be built on the site of the Gate-house on Turton Road.
But nearby residents, who fought and lost a long standing battle to keep nearby fields green, believe this could open the floodgates for developers to build on the remaining 120 acres of open land.
One angry residents said: "They are going to do the same thing all over again and and before we know it that land will be covered in buildings."
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