Sign up for the MyWigan newsletter for the biggest stories direct to your inbox The site of a former school in Wigan is set to be turned into 61 houses.
Plans for the housing development at the former Abraham Guest High School site in Orrell Road have been approved by Wigan council's planning committee.
A mix of two, three and four bedroom homes, including townhouses, detached and semi-detached dwellings, are due to be built on the empty land in Orrell. READ MORE: The Chinese state-owned company causing controversy in Wigan A quarter of the houses would be affordable with the remainder sold privately.
It comes after a planning application for an 'extra care' scheme with 101 apartments was approved in 2015 – but the development did not go
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