Sign up for the MyWigan newsletter for the biggest stories direct to your inbox Plans to restore a disused and derelict Victorian villa in Wigan and build a new apartment block behind it have been approved despite dozens of objections.
The Brentwood building in Wigan Lane is set to be converted into three apartments with a further 33 flats in a new four-storey building on the site.
The restoration work, which will involve rebuilding parts of the mid-Victorian villa, will be financed by the new apartments which would not be 'affordable'. READ MORE: The fight over family houses being converted into low-cost shared accommodation The new apartment block will be of a 'contemporary architectural style', using cladding which is 'in keeping' with
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