A new luxury seven-bedroom home will be built at Coronation Street legend Julie Goodyear’s old home.
A new luxury seven-bedroom home will be built at Coronation Street legend Julie Goodyear’s old home.
There has been controversy and confusion in Heywood over the future of the mansion. The Cobbles star, who played landlady Bet Lynch, no longer lives at the Rochdale Road East site.
False rumours circulated that the £1.5m mansion at Primrose Hill Farm was to be turned into a house of multiple occupation (HMO) for immigrants – which led to protests outside.
At the time of the protests, building work had started despite no valid planning application being submitted to Rochdale council. The council issued a temporary stop notice (TSN) on February 20 after being alerted to construction work by councillors.
The new owner, Dr Liaqat Malik, later submitted a planning application to convert the old stables into a seven-bedroom ‘luxury’ house, which has now been approved by Rochdale town hall.
Despite the furore over the conversion of the homes, no objector actually turned up to the Rochdale council’s latest planning committee meeting to contest the scheme.
Mr Malik was present and explained the previous plans had been submitted to building control by mistake, which led to the ‘trouble’ with protests and online speculation.
Building control applications look at how the development is constructed, whereas planning permission outlines what is being built.
Following unanimous approval by the planning committee on August 5, three en-suite bedrooms will be built on the ground floor, alongside a kitchen, dining room, reception area, cinema room, and a family bathroom.
Four more en-suite bedrooms and a lounge on the first floor are also touted as well as space for seven cars, the council meeting heard. Planning papers say the east stables would be converted into a garage and the south stables be transformed into a bike storage room, pool area, rest room and a bathroom.
The site has been subjected to a number of changing applications in recent months. In October 2025, a building control application for a 15-bed HMO was submitted to the council.
That application was amended on November 10, 2025 to become a 15-bedroom bed and breakfast. Building control plans were amended again on February 11 to the creation of 10, two-bedroom apartments and stable conversion into a three-bedroom house.
The scheme was amended again on March 12 to convert the barn into a luxury residential house for one family, including an annex building. The latest change was much like the planning application approved by the planning committee.
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