FOUR pairs of semi-detached houses are to be built on the car park of the former Roach Bank Inn.

The pub, in Croft Lane, Bury, closed in 2008 and now developers have been granted planning permission to build the properties on the land at the back of the building.

The proposed dwellings will be modest three-bedroom family homes with off-street parking and individual gardens/amenity space. Developers Henmort Developments said in a statement the new houses are likely to have brick-faced external walls with stone heads, sills to the door and window openings and pitched roofs.

The statement added that the layout is likely to include an entrance hall, toilet, lounge and open kitchen/dining room on the ground floor, with three upstairs bedrooms, one en-suite.