Plan for 16,500 homes and ‘Wigan-Bolton Growth Corridor’ with M6-M61 link road agreed

Wigan Council gave the thumbs-up to Greater Manchester’s final Places for Everyone (PfE) draft at a meeting on Wednesday.

The PfE plan sets out strategic employment, residential and transport infrastructure targets across nine of the city region’s boroughs from 2022 to 2039.

Councils across the city region have until March 21 to adopt the plan as the strategy which will inform their local plans which have a major bearing on…