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Fresh bid to convert ex-club into storage facility

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July 03, 2025

THE fight to save a landmark former social club which had been saved from being permanently turned into a storage facility looks set for round two.

- BY MARK SMITH

Fresh bid to convert ex-club into storage facility

The LDRS reported recently how Halton Council planners had thrown out an application to transform the former Oddies social club on Hale Road in Halebank into a storage and distribution site, after concerns were raised over its loss as a community venue by the local parish council.

But now a fresh application has been submitted which could once again permanently spell the end for a former club which supporters said had been at the hart of the local community for 'generations'.

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