New accommodation for the homeless in Wigan has been given the green light. Retail units on Ridyard Street in Pemberton will now be transformed into an eight-bed accommodation.
It is one of two new interim accommodation blocks that form part of Wigan Council’s initiative to help bring people off the streets and back into society. The other proposed four-bed home on Warwick Road store in Atherton, to be laid out in the same way as the Pemberton site, has not yet been approved.
The two applications from Wigan Council were submitted after they identified ‘a requirement for interim accommodation for the homeless and rough sleepers’, a planning statement said.
