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Manchester Evening News
Manchester Evening News
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George Lythgoe

Bosses at Wigan's Heinz factory want to create new 'cookhouse'

Bosses at the Heinz factory in Wigan - famous for its baked beans - want to create a new 'cookhouse'.

The Walthew House Lane site currently has scaffolding around the current cookhouse to support the structure for ‘health and safety concerns’. Applicant Kraft Heinz wants to build a new structure around the room as it remains operational. The company intends to bulldoze 'dilapidated' walls.

The plan is to sort the existing cookhouse in Orrell, which is in a poor state, supported by scaffolding.

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