New junction and road to serve major housing development at Pocket Nook approved

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A new junction, spur road and works on Atherleigh Way have been approved ahead of a bid to build hundreds of homes and work floorspace in Lowton.Planning permission has been granted for a new road behind Arlington Drive, allowing for access onto the Pocket Nook site – but plans for 600 homes and 15,000 sqm of employment floorspace at the site are yet to be submitted.The junction would be a traffic signal controlled T-junction, with two lanes for traffic goin straight ahead on Atherleigh Way and a dedicated right turn lane into Pocket Nook.It comes after Wigan council said compulsory purchase powers could be used to develop the land which has been earmarked for housing despite one of the landowners saying he has no intention of selling his.