A developer is looking to push through a 1,100 home ‘masterplan’ at Mosley Common that could see a new community built. The plan is said to help meet the local demand for housing, install a new guided busway stop and new primary school provision to address the level of additional demand generated.
The Wigan site, close to the border with Salford, is part of the Places for Everyone plan that identifies a requirement for 15,554 new dwellings over the plan period 2021 to 2037. Peel Land & Property, the developers, were keen to submit the planning application prior to the decision on the Places for Everyone plan.
The masterplan was approved on July 27 but that decision has since been called in by council.
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Councillor Stuart Gerrard stated in his reason for calling the decision in, that more time was needed to consult the public. He said that there was a lack of clarity in the plans in regard to where the extra money for school capacity would be going.
“There’s no mention of expansion for secondary education,” he said. “Schools are already oversubscribed in the area with children not getting their first, second and sometimes, third choice as it is at the current time.
“What measures will be used to alleviate this problem. There’s no mention of how the local road network will be improved and how this area's road network will be upgraded to take on the extra, at best 1100 vehicles, yet that figure will be higher."
What happens next is that the decision will be reconsidered and an open meeting will be held. Further debate and scrutiny will take place at the meeting and a final decision will then be made.
Peel’s masterplan shares a vision of a new community and travel hub that would include shops and spaces for events and classes. A network of footpaths, cycleways would improve access to Walkden train station, it says
“Land North of Mosley Common will be a new community located within an ecologically rich landscape network that will create a sustainable place where both people and nature can flourish,” the masterplan said. “The landscape-led approach for the site embraces the existing green and blue assets to create a new special place, with distinctive character and a strong community.
“The masterplan includes a network of public green spaces with three significant biodiverse parklands at the core of the community - Mosley Woods, the reinstated lost woodland of Tyldesley Hurst, Honksford Meadows, the destination brookside parkland, and Mosley Mosslands, an educational, multifunctional landscape focused around a body of water overlooked by homes. Together, these will form an attractive, vibrant new parkland destination with an appealing mix of high-quality homes, landscaped open space and valuable new amenities serving existing and new residents.”
The property and land owning giant claim it would bring around 200 jobs to the local area.
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