The Women’s Euros and the Rugby League World Cup were the talk of 2022 in Wigan, but next year is all about the outdoors and green spaces. The council leader for the borough is not daunted by being able to deliver on the year just gone - which he deemed “a brilliant 12 months”.
Exciting projects of a new cafe and play area at Pennington Flash as well as a multi-million pound overhaul of Haigh Hall are both central to what is the next ‘big thing’ on the horizon. Coun David Winstanley has been booed by the national accretion given to the nature reserves.
The areas, now called ‘The Flashes of Wigan and Leigh’, will knit together a total of thirteen sites including Wigan Flashes, Amberswood, Three Sisters, Bickershaw Country Park, Pennington Flash and Viridor Wood near Bamfurlong in Wigan, creating the first National Nature Reserve in Greater Manchester.
