Local councillors have supported the suggested name for a road leading to a new Biddulph housing development.

The development, which is made up of six new houses is located adjacent to 121 Tunstall Road, and was discussed by Biddulph Town Councillors at a Planning Committee meeting tonight (Thursday).

The road leading to the development will be called Church Mews, presumably due to its close proximity to the nearby St John's Church.

One councillor said the name was "slightly pretentious", but councillors had no problems with the name overall.

Committee chair Cllr David Hawley said: "Staffordshire Moorlands District Council received a naming and numbering application to register six new dwellings and one new road.

"The developer has suggested the name of Church Mews. Has anybody got any views on that? Personally I don't have a problem."

Cllr Wayne Rogers said: "I can't see an issue with that name."

Cllr Jim Garvey added: "It seems slightly pretentious, but I don't have any objections with it at all."

Councillors then voted to back the naming of the road as Church Mews.

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