LOCATION, location... no location!

High drama this week surrounded the latest Channel 4 production - "Gold-Plated" - about the opulence of Cheshire, which needs places to shoot around Macclesfield.

The production company - World Productions of London - have applied to the town hall for outline planning permission to convert the use of the £2million, five bedroomed, Bodkin Hall in Lower Withington from "residential to FILM SET".

However, the movie-makers went all coy and tight-lipped about the project, which is most unlike "luvvies", when the Macclesfield Express approached them about Hollywood coming to Treacle Town.

The company said that they weren't sure if they were using Bodkin Hall and that the director of the eight-part family saga was honeymooning in the Seychelles.

The saga continued when Channel 4 said that Bodkin Hall had been looked at but that they were probably not going to use the three-bathroomed pad situated in four acres of "superb landscaped gardens" which is currently up for grabs at the modest price tag of £2m.

A Channel 4 spokeswoman said: "There is not much to say on it at the moment, but the drama is based on the money in Cheshire based around a family and what they get up to.

"The location manager is looking at venues but we haven't got details as they are still in casting - any location is possible."