The decision to put up rents in Wigan’s council housing by seven per cent would leave people choosing between ‘heating, food and rent’, a councillor has warned. The decision made by the cabinet last week took another grilling by the Confident Council Scrutiny Committee where councillors highlighted it would hit ‘the poorest in the borough’.
“As always I am against rent rises,” Coun James Paul Watson told Wigan Town Hall on Monday. “I hear the right to buy scheme is to blame for everything, are we writing to the government to change this?
“This is going to have a massive impact on our financially vulnerable. It is heartbreaking to see what I see on Hag Fold near me [Atherton].
