‘ Wigan has enough houses’ says one councillor who proposed the borough should withdraw from the Places for Everyone plan. Coun James Watson, of the Independent Network, saw his plan to join Stockport in opting out of the plan and pursuing Wigan’s best interests thwarted by Labour members in the town hall chamber this week.
Too much house building has gone on under the council leader Dave Molyneux, or ‘Concrete Dave’, Coun Watson jibed. He also added that the borough needs to focus on reducing their 13,000 person waiting list for social housing - suggesting more should be done to get developers to add more affordable housing to the market.
The Places for Everyone is the strategy for building 165,000 homes across Greater Manchester over the next 15 years.
