A PRE-SCHOOL has been saved after campaigners were given permission to use portable cabins.

Parents and members of the focus group at Lowercroft Pre-School in Ashington Drive, Bury, were celebrating after members of Bury's planning committee approved the move.

Families had been informed earlier in the year that the pre-school would close because its building had been declared unfit.

A surveyors' report revealed that the 18-year-old prefabricated building had dry rot and a collapsing floor. The decision left many plans in ruins, with places fully booked at the centre for the next three years.

Now parents are ready to bring in new cabins and refurbish them in time for the September term.

Following the unanimous approval of the application at Tuesday's planning meeting, Carla Mulvaney, from the focus group said: "We are absolutely delighted with the news. Many of us were quite apprehensive before the meeting because there had been so many objectors to the plan."

Parents of the children at the pre-school had embarked on a massive £20,000 fund-raising drive in recent months to pay for the refurbishment.