THANKFULLY, unlike G. Pearson (Journal Mailbox, July 8), over 300 Hindley Green residents who sent objections do not feel WMBC have the interest of the community at heart in proposing to build houses on its last green field site.
Most such projects are not about honestly addressing the community's needs, preserving wildlife, or the health and well-being of our children - they are purely and simply about money.
Nothing in this proposal indicates this is the exception, and ordinary local people have refused to be conned. We are not misled by impossible assurances at outline stage that eg. no trees will be felled, lopped or topped on site. We remain unconvinced, unlike G. Pearson, that several hundred more houses with the average two cars each will decrease localised traffic.
With no new schools proposed to service the extra families, Sacred Heart will be a logical choice, congesting Swan Lane even more with vehicles bringing and collecting more children via surrounding residential roads - the very real and hazardous present-day "rat run" dismissed as "so-called" by G. Pearson.
Nor are we persuaded that lorries accessing the industrial estate from the Wigan end will pass Swan Lane to negotiate traffic lights and a bottleneck on the Corner Lane entrance only to double back.
People trying for years to sell or rent established properties are disadvantaged by brand new houses with developers' incentives to buy - with or without extra traffic.
These are facts, not persuasions peddled by the "Caring Borough".
A final fact, Anti-Blue Route 225 campaigners maintained that the road would not alleviate local congestion and that like this application, was never intended to benefit Hindley Green.
Councillors Murphy, Simmonds and Turner, support your ward members in recommending this application is not approved. Never mind Not In My Back Yard, G.Pearson, we say not in Hindley Green, full stop!
John Vickers
Carr Common Road
Hindley Green
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