The plan to build a new secondary school in Littleborough should ‘go back to the drawing board’, councillors say.

Proposals for the new site for Star Lakeside Academy have been in the works for years. It was supposed to open its doors in 2023.

But the project has been on pause since the Department for Education (DfE) suspended work three years ago. Councillors now want to start fresh.

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The latest meeting of Rochdale council’s Pennines Township Committee was told there is ‘no news about the secondary school’ from the DfE.

That’s despite government officials saying they would update the council by late spring this year.

Coun John Blundell said: “We don’t seem to

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