On the 27th March 2007 the Council's Planning Control Committee authorised the amalgamation and extension of the Ramsbottom, Tanners and Bury New Road conservation areas to form one larger Ramsbottom conservation area. The new boundary is now in force and is the same as that proposed in the Appraisal Map attached to the appraisal information. The website information will be fully amended as soon as possible.
Ramsbottom lies at a point where routes along and across the Irwell Valley converge. The development of the town dates from the industrial expansion around the 1820's most notably related to the Grant family. The wealth generated by the spread of industrial development financed a programme of rebuilding which created the present day town.
The conservation area is centred on the town's axial point at the Market Place and reaches out along Bolton and Bridge Streets, primarily focused on the 19th Century commercial, retail and civic development of the town.
The conservation area exemplifies the best of the stone architecture which dominates the valley area to the north of Bury and includes a significant number of listed buildings.
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