An expanding high street discount store has agreed to limit its proposed opening times. The Home Bargains on Bury Road in Breightmet is in the process of expanding into the old Morrisons supermarket next door. The store had originally bid for a licence to sell alcohol for up to 24 hours a day, seven days a week, but has now scaled this back to just from 7am to 11pm instead.
Cllr Sean Fielding, of Breightmet, said: "This is a victory for common sense. “While Home Bargains said they weren't going to open to sell alcohol 24/7, I still wanted to have the additional reassurance in the form of licensing restrictions that would prevent them from ever doing so in future. The licencing bid was made to Bolton Council (Image: Newsquest) "An alcohol licence from 7am to 11pm is still longer than I would like, but in consultation with Breightmet and Blackshaw Neighbourhood Watch and local residents, I've withdrawn my complaint and accepted this compromise.
" Home Bargains has been working on expanding into the former Morrisons site since the supermarket closed last September. Morrisons had announced its plans to close before saying that the company had found the Breightmet branch to be “unviable". But the expanded Home Bargains has promised it will be "almost double the original size" with a café and instore bakery.
They say that it will also create around 50 new jobs. The original licencing bid, entered on Tuesday, July 23 this year, had seen Home Bargains apply to the council for th.