A British family is living mortgage free in their dream home - after buying the property for just £7,000. Laura Phoenix, and her husband, Anthony, migrated to Bulgaria amid spiralling housing costs in the UK.
29.02.2024 - 06:27 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
Tony Burrill has been a resident of Littleborough for 40 years. But now, he's made the decision to leave the place that's become home.
The 43-year-old, who works as an assistant manager at a care home, is set to move out of the town within the next year due to a number of planned developments in the neighbourhood.
"I know there’s development for schools, there was a high school for around 1,000 pupils and for me, that's really frustrating," he told the Manchester Evening News.
He said of the space: "It's where people go to walk their dogs, kids play around, and where I go for a walk when I'm stressed. That was going ahead after Covid but the government put a stop to it for three years"
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In 2019 Lakeside Academy was one of the 22 new schools around the country to have ben given the go ahead to be built.
What would become Littleborough's first high school was planned to be developed on the playing field right behind Littleborough primary school on Calderbrook Road.
Rochdale council bosses were delighted that the 750-place school - to be run by Star Academies - was seemingly signed off, saying it would reassure worried families and strengthen education in the borough.
But, the plan was put on hold as it was said there wasn't enough pupils to fill the school. The DfE said the school would not open before 2025. There has since been suggestion that the school may never open.
Coun Tom Besford, who represents Littleborough Lakeside, said in 2022 about the school: "Littleborough desperately needs a new school. We are already sending hundreds of children outside of the area for their secondary school education."
But Tony says the school plans, along with
A British family is living mortgage free in their dream home - after buying the property for just £7,000. Laura Phoenix, and her husband, Anthony, migrated to Bulgaria amid spiralling housing costs in the UK.
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