The development will bring 106 new affordable homes to the area
A huge new affordable housing development will be built in Wigan despite concerns over road congestion near the site.
The homes will be built in the vacant space left by Enterprise House, which was bulldozed in 2022 after no businesses came forward to use the site as employment space, Wigan Town Hall heard. Coun Janice Sharratt raised questions over the impact this could have on the nearby A577 - which a traffic study in 2010 dubbed the most congested road in the borough. She heard how the former industrial use would mean there would be little difference between the number of cars going in and out of the site then compared to when construction is complete.
There was disappointment among committee members as the £263,000 to improve education facilities in the area was not ‘financially viable’ for the developer. Nevertheless, the ‘need for affordable homes outweighed education needs’, the council chamber heard.
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