A DOZEN new jobs will be created if a Stalybridge medical centre is allowed to become bigger.
Bosses at the Grosvenor, on Grosvenor Street, want to add another storey to the building.
And if permission is given, they say it will boost the full time workforce from 15 to 37 people.
Paresh Parikh, of Grosvenor Medical Centre, has applied to Tameside Council for permission to grow the facility by another story, with a replacement floor in its roof space.
That would more than double the internal space if the Speakers Panel (Planning) committee gives the application the thumbs up.
Meanwhile, a former Hyde pub will be converted into four flats after planning permission was granted.
The Clarence, on Talbot Road in Newton, can now become three two-bedroomed and one three-bedroomed properties after Shetu Miah Suban’s scheme was given the go ahead.
But a similar scheme at Dukinfield’s former New Inn, on Birch Lane, has been knocked back because parking provision was not good enough and conditions would not be good enough to live in.
A Tameside Council notice said: “Owing to the substandard level of parking provision proposed, leading to reliance upon on-street parking opportunities (close to a busy junction), the proposal would create unacceptable highways safety issues for all road users.
“The poor/contrived layout of proposed residential units 2 and 5 in particular would result in/be subject to unsatisfactory outlook, inadequate natural daylight/sunlight to habitable rooms – thereby contributing to a poor living environment for future occupants.”
A block of flats on Mount Street in the town centre will have the title Chartist House put on it.
And on Manchester Road, Denton, two flats will be created in office space above a current estate agents while Armstrong House, on Haughton Green Road in Haughton Green, can be converted into two properties, despite an objection claiming it was too big and would create parking problems.
However, Simon Kennedy has been told he cannot demolish stables at Oak Villas in Carrbrook and build a new outbuilding, which would house an office and storage space without seeking planning permission.