The Mesnes (also known as the Mesnes Field) is under threat with a planning application for Wigan Council to consider. The proposals are to build a boys/girls club on the site within this conservation area.

The idea of a boys/girls is to be welcomed, as Wigan is big enough to support any such facility. Our belief is that the brownfield sites would be better used for facilities like this, rather than use our precious green environment.

The Mesnes Field is our green inheritance to be maintained as a green urban space for posterity. This piece of land is Wigan's oldest feature and it must remain so.