Wigan says yes to 1,050-home neighbourhood
Peel L&P has been granted planning permission to redevelop 156 acres north of Mosley Common in Tyldesley.
The scheme would see the delivery of 1,050 homes, a transport hub, and three new parks: Mosley Woods, Mosley Mosslands, and Honksford Meadows.
Wigan Council’s planning committee gave the scheme the green light on Friday, approving two separate applications – an outline planning application for the wider masterplan and another with details for the first phase. This phase, to be known as Twire, will be delivered by Peel’s homebuilder arm Northstone.
A spokesperson for Peel L&P said: “It is great to see the shared vision for a sustainable community reach this key milestone after many years of work and extensive engagement.
“The new family and affordable homes will be delivered around the Leigh-Salford-Manchester Busway and a central parkland of new green spaces. We are excited to be working with the Council and Transport for Greater Manchester in delivering a new busway stop and travel hub.”
The scheme also includes plans to expand St Johns Primary School.
The Tyldesley site is allocated for residential development in Places for Everyone, the Greater Manchester spatial framework that is currently undergoing examination by inspectors appointed by the secretary of state.
The spokesperson added: “We now look forward to bringing the proposals forward in a responsible way with our home-building partners and seeing all the wide-ranging benefits of the proposals being delivered locally.”
Hope Architects designed the Northstone plans, while Pegasus led on landscape and REFA on drainage.
In regards to the wider masterplan, Turley is the planning consultant and JTP is the masterplan designer. WSP is the flooding and drainage expert. BMD is in charge of landscape and TTHC is leading on transport. TEP is the ecology consultant.
To learn more about the plans, search for application reference numbers A/23/95156/MAJES and A/23/95155/OUTMES on Wigan Council’s planning portal.
As someone who is reliant on the (already unreliable) guided busway route, I dread to think how they expect another thousand or so people to use it (if public transport is at the ethos of the redevelopment), people are often left stranded as it is through overcrowded / cancelled services. Also feels like there’s a slight oxymoron to ‘Nature Recovery’ by means of a couple of duck ponds in relation to building on over 150 acres of already established fields, brooks and woodland..
By Anonymous
This is disappointing to read and sad to see so many in the article gushing over building on green belt land. How anyone could visit that site and think it’s acceptable / suitable to build over 1,000 homes is thinking with profit in their minds whether it’s consultant fees or house sales. Shame on all those involved.
By Mr Jones
Mr Jones, first of all it’s not greenbelt. Secondly, this is the perfect place to be building homes. It’s a sustainable location, in the middle of a settlement area (if you look from a birds eye view?), with good transport links and close proximity to schools that have the capacity to expand. It’s literally the very definition of sustainable development. Unless you have brownfield land in the area with space for 1,000 homes (houses, not apartments) then I suggest you calm down a bit and leave the planning and development to the professionals.
By David
Good luck for anyone trying to get on the East Lancs in Mossley Common once this scheme is complete. Its absolutely bonkers
By Jon P
Because these roads aren’t busy enough!
By The fed up commuter
Time to expand the Metrolink.
By Big Dub
Let’s pack em in greenbelt or not, the East Lancs needs more traffic, more people more cars to ensure the housing stock of homes that no one can afford can be be sustained into the future order to meet our profi….i mean our ESG targets. ….or something. Anyway….oh look a shiny thing over there!
By Franz Kafka
The transport hub is bus stop. No free parking
An average of two cars per household. No extra doctors, dentists or schools.
The roads are over crowded already.
Towns that have good transport links have the trams as well. Wigan, Leigh, Walkden and need the tram or Leigh needs to be reconnect to the rail system.
By Anonymous
Typical council not bothered about what the local people think.
By Anonymous
The development will give TfGM a few hundred thousand to buy a few more purple buses. Job done.
By Bus Fring
The transport hub is a bus stop. The Mosley Common/east lancs junction is already at over capacity. Expanding St John’s school will mean more parents dropping kids off at rush hour. They are ripping up acres of greenbelt, grasslands, shrubs bushes, trees, and plants which burn up CO2 and concreting over most of the area and then have the gall to state they are creating new parks.
By Anonymous
Of course large developments on this scale also put pressures on existing surface water drainage and sewage waste.
The developers should have allowed for and agreed this with the LA Planning and Building Control and NW Water.If the developers are expecting to existing old drainage infrastructure they will need confirmation that this is compliant and there is enough capacity .
By Mr Paul Griffiths
Where are the jobs for these new incomers, as Wigan council are only concerned with housebuilding, but NOT jobs creating.
By Anonymous
To David, I assume you are not from the area and probably have never been to the area. The roads are well over capacity at peak times. The local school, doctors dentist etc are all full. This land is currently a buffer to stop the various villages from merging into a mass urban sprawl. The exact definition of green belt. So unfortunately leaving the planning and development up to the “professionals” is not an option as they are just looking to increase their profits!
By Paul
It’s great that new home are being built,let’s hope at least 50% are affordable for first time buyers.People usually only object to new homes if they think it will affect the value of their property ( So shame on you )
By Simon Wilcock