Dan Dougherty

The Gibfield Preservation Group is urging residents to participate in Wigan Council’s six-week consultation on plans for a 500-home development between Atherton and Westhoughton. The group warns that Gibfield Park could destroy farmland and rare dry heath and acid grassland, threaten protected species, increase traffic and pollution, and place further pressure on schools, healthcare and local roads. It also argues that the cumulative effects of developments across the region have not been adequately assessed.