A NEW housing development could be built on the site of a former care home in Kearsley.

An application to build 33 homes on an empty site in Alderbank Close has been submitted to Bolton Council.

The homes would mostly be three-bedroom semi-detached and terraced houses as well as four two-bedroom houses.

Each house, which will be sold privately, would have parking spaces in front or to the side of the property.

The site, which neighbours Kearsley Park, was formerly occupied by a care home that has recently been demolished.

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Kearsley Park Vets Bowling Club sits to the North of the site and the east side of the site is bounded by Kearsley Cricket Club.

A spokesman for the bowling club welcomed the proposal for something to be built on the site which appears 'forlorn'.

She said: “When it was Alderbank, it used to have lights at the back because there’s a little walkway. If they put lights up and a new fence, then that would be better.”

But Cllr Julie Pattison, who represents the ward, said that so far, feedback from residents has been negative.

She said: “I do think that we do have a huge housing shortage and that needs to be addressed going forward. But at the moment the feedback from residents is negative.

“At the moment it’s just too many applications being thrown at them. They feel they are being attacked from all sides.”

The application is likely to be discussed at a residents meeting tonight at 7pm at St John Fisher Church in Manchester Road.